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Added Reiserfs, XFS, JFS to list of file systems.

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.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111,
.\" USA.
.\"
.TH FILESYSTEMS 5 2001-12-07 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.\" 2007-12-14 mtk Added Reiserfs, XFS, JFS.
.\"
.TH FILESYSTEMS 5 2007-12-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.nh
.SH NAME
filesystems \- Linux filesystem types: minix, ext, ext2, ext3, xia, msdos,
filesystems \- Linux filesystem types: minix, ext, ext2, ext3, Reiserfs,
XFS, JFS, xia, msdos,
umsdos, vfat, proc, nfs, iso9660, hpfs, sysv, smb, ncpfs
.SH DESCRIPTION
When, as is customary, the
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In order to use a filesystem, you have to
.I mount
it, see
.BR mount (8)
for the mount command, and for the available mount options.
it; see
.BR mount (8).
Below a short description of a few of the available filesystems.
.TP
.TP 10
.B "minix"
is the filesystem used in the Minix operating system, the first to run
under Linux.
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It is easy to
switch back and forth between ext2 and ext3.
.TP
.B Reiserfs
is a journaling file system, designed by Hans Reiser,
that was integrated into Linux in kernel 2.4.1.
.TP
.B XFS
is a journaling file system, developed by SGI,
that was integrated into Linux in kernel 2.4.20.
.TP
.B JFS
is a journaling file system, developed by IBM,
that was integrated into Linux in kernel 2.4.24.
.TP
.B xiafs
was designed and implemented to be a stable, safe filesystem by
extending the Minix filesystem code.