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  2. aufs - Wikipedia

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    The name originally stood for AnotherUnionFS until version 2. Developed by Junjiro Okajima in 2006, [ 1 ] aufs is a complete rewrite of the earlier UnionFS . It aimed to improve reliability and performance, but also introduced some new concepts, like writable branch balancing, [ 2 ] and other improvements – some of which are now implemented ...

  3. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the concept of UNIX mount points, where volumes are named and located arbitrarily in a single hierarchical namespace, drive letter assignment allows multiple highest-level namespaces. Drive letter assignment is thus a process of using letters to name the roots of the "forest" representing the file system; each volume holds an independent ...

  4. mount (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    The mount command instructs the operating system that a file system is ready to use, and associates it with a particular point in the overall file system hierarchy (its mount point) and sets options relating to its access. Mounting makes file systems, files, directories, devices and special files available for use and available to the user.

  5. OverlayFS - Wikipedia

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    Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD [citation needed] OverlayFS is a union mount filesystem implementation for Linux. It combines multiple different underlying mount points into one, resulting in a single directory structure that contains underlying files and sub-directories from all sources.

  6. List of GNU Core Utilities commands - Wikipedia

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    Name Description arch: Prints machine hardware name (same as uname -m) basename: Removes the path prefix from a given pathname chroot: Changes the root directory date: Prints or sets the system date and time dirname: Strips non-directory suffix from file name du: Shows disk usage on file systems echo: Displays a specified line of text env

  7. words (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking programs. [1] The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words.

  8. UnionFS - Wikipedia

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    Unionfs is a filesystem service for Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD which implements a union mount for other file systems.It allows files and directories of separate file systems, known as branches, to be transparently overlaid, forming a single coherent file system.

  9. fstab - Wikipedia

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    fstab (after file systems table) is a system file commonly found in the directory /etc on Unix and Unix-like computer systems. In Linux, it is part of the util-linux package. The fstab file typically lists all available disk partitions and other types of file systems and data sources that may not necessarily be disk-based, and indicates how they are to be initialized or otherwise integrated ...