ENVS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fsck, System Administrator, Chkdsk
13 May 2018
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ENVS 1500 Tutorial 7 Notes – Initialization Files
Introduction
• Including setting up the user name and ID number, building entries to the appropriate
user ad group tales, reatig the user’s hoe diretory, assigig logi shells, ad
establishing user initialization files
• Correspodig to the user’s partiular terinal hardware, prompt preferences, and the
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• Other typical UNIX/Linux administration commands include a partition tool for
partitioning hard disk drives
• Newfs for building a file system
• Mount and umount for mounting and unmounting file systems
• fsck for checking and repairing the file system (similar in concept to, but much more
complex and thorough than, CHKDSK on Windows systems)
• du and df for measuring disk usage and free space
• tar for collecting files into archives
• Ufs dump and ufsre store for creating backups and recovering damaged files. Config is
used to build the system.
• There are many additional tools available to the UNIX/Linux sysadmin.
• Like other large systems, server-based versions of Windows provide a full suite of tools
for measuring system performance and managing the system, including the ability to
control and configure client systems remotely.
• Most systems provide a variety of statistical information that indicates the load on the
system and the efficiency of the system.
• This information is used by the system administrator as a basis for tuning the system.
• Part of a typical system status report appears.
• This particular report comes from a Linux system.
• The report indicates the load on the system as a function of time, shows CPU and
memory usage, identifies the most CPU-intensive processes.
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