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<preface id="preface">
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<title>About This Book</title>
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<blockquote><para><quote>Only two things are infinite, the universe
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and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.</quote>
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Albert Einstein</para></blockquote>
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<sect1 id="acknowledgements">
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<title>Acknowledgments</title>
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<sect2 id="acknowledgements-joanna"><title>Joanna's acknowledgments</title>
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<para>Many people have helped me with this book, directly or
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indirectly. I would like to especially thank Matt Welsh for
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inspiration and LDP leadership, Andy Oram for getting me to work
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again with much-valued feedback, Olaf Kirch for showing me that it
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can be done, and Adam Richter at Yggdrasil and others for showing
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me that other people can find it interesting as well.</para>
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<para>Stephen Tweedie, H. Peter Anvin, Remy Card, Theodore
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Ts'o, and Stephen Tweedie have let me borrow their work (and
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thus make the book look thicker and much more impressive):
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a comparison between the xia and ext2 filesystems, the device
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list and a description of the ext2 filesystem. These aren't
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part of the book any more. I am most grateful for this, and
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very apologetic for the earlier versions that sometimes lacked
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proper attribution.</para>
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<para>In addition, I would like to thank Mark Komarinski for
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sending his material in 1993 and the many system administration
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columns in Linux Journal. They are quite informative and
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inspirational.</para>
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<para>Many useful comments have been sent by a large number
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of people. My miniature black hole of an archive doesn't let
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me find all their names, but some of them are, in alphabetical
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order: Paul Caprioli, Ales Cepek, Marie-France Declerfayt,
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Dave Dobson, Olaf Flebbe, Helmut Geyer, Larry Greenfield and
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his father, Stephen Harris, Jyrki Havia, Jim Haynes, York Lam,
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Timothy Andrew Lister, Jim Lynch, Michael J. Micek, Jacob Navia,
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Dan Poirier, Daniel Quinlan, Jouni K Seppänen, Philippe Steindl,
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G.B. Stotte. My apologies to anyone I have forgotten.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="acknowledgements-stephen"><title>Stephen's acknowledgments</title>
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<para>I would like to thank Lars and Joanna for their hard
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work on the guide.</para>
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<para>In a guide like this one there are likely to be at least
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some minor inaccuracies. And there are almost certainly going to
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be sections that become out of date from time to time. If you
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notice any of this then please let me know by sending me an email
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to: <email>bagpuss@debian.org.NOSPAM</email>. I will take virtually
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any form of input (diffs, just plain text, html, whatever), I am
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in no way above allowing others to help me maintain such a large
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text as this :) </para>
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<para>Many thanks to Helen Topping Shaw for getting the red pen out
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and making the text far better than it would otherwise have been.
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Also thanks are due just for being wonderful.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="acknowledgements-alex">
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<title>Alex's Acknowledgments</title>
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<para>I would like to thank Lars, Joanna, and Stephen for all the
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great work that they have done on this document over the years. I
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only hope that my contribution will be worthy of continuing the work
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they started.</para>
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<para>Like the previous maintainers, I openly welcome any comments,
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suggestions, complains, corrections, or any other form of feedback
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you may have. This document can only benefit from the suggestions
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of those who use it.</para>
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<para>There have been many people who have helped me on my journey
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through the "Windows-Free" world, the person I feel I need to thank the
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most is my first true UN*X mentor, Mike Velasco. Back in a time before
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SCO became a "dirty word", Mike helped me on the path of tar's, cpio's,
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and many, many man pages. Thanks Mike! You are the 'Sofa King'.<para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="revision-hist">
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<title>Revision History</title>
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<para>
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<revhistory>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>0.7</revnumber>
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<date>2001-12-03</date>
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<authorinitials>SS</authorinitials>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>0.8</revnumber>
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<date>2003-11-18</date>
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<authorinitials>AW</authorinitials>
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<revdescription><orderedlist spacing='compact'>
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<listitem><simpara>Added a section on NTP
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Cleaned some SGML
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Added ext3 to the filesystem
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section
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</simpara></listitem>
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</orderedlist></revdescription>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>0.9</revnumber>
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<date> </date>
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<authorinitials>AW</authorinitials>
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<revdescription><orderedlist spacing='compact'>
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<listitem><simpara>Cleaned some SGML code, changed
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doctype to lds.dsl, and added id tags
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Updated section on filesystem types,
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and Filesystem comparison
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Updated partition type section
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Updated section on creating
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partitions
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Wrote section on Logical Volume
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Manager (LVM)
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Updated section on space allocation
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Added chapter on System Monitoring
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Added more command line utilities
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Verified Device list
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Modified email address for Authors
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Added references to more in-depth
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documents where applicable
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Added notes on upcoming sections
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Indexed chapters 1 - 4, & part of 5
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</simpara></listitem>
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<listitem><simpara>Updated Misc Information throughout
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the book
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</simpara></listitem>
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</orderedlist></revdescription>
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</revision>
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</revhistory>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="available-versions">
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<title>Source and pre-formatted versions available</title>
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<para>The source code and other machine readable formats
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of this book can be found on the Internet via anonymous FTP at the
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Linux Documentation Project home page <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org/">http://www.tldp.org/</ulink>, or
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at the home page of this book at
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<ulink url="http://www.draxeman.com/sag.html">
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http://www.draxeman/sag.html</ulink>. This book is available in at
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least it's SGML source, as well as, HTML and PDF formats. Other
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formats may be available.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="typo-conventions">
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<title>Typographical Conventions</title>
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<para>Throughout this book, I have tried to use uniform
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typographical conventions. Hopefully they aid readability. If
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you can suggest any improvements please contact me.</para>
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<para>Filenames are expressed as:
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<filename>/usr/share/doc/foo</filename>.</para>
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<para>Command names are expressed as: <command>fsck</command>
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<para>Email addresses are expressed as:
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<email>user@domain.com</email></para>
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<para>URLs are expressed as: <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org">http://www.tldp.org</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>I will add to this section as things come up whilst
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editing. If you notice anything that should be added then
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please let me know.</para>
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</sect1>
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</preface>
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