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Table of Contents
- 20.1 About Local File Systems
- 20.2 About the Btrfs File System
- 20.3 Creating a Btrfs File System
- 20.4 Modifying a Btrfs File System
- 20.5 Compressing and Defragmenting a Btrfs File System
- 20.6 Resizing a Btrfs File System
- 20.7 Creating Subvolumes and Snapshots
- 20.8 Using the Send/Receive Feature
- 20.9 Using Quota Groups
- 20.10 Replacing Devices on a Live File System
- 20.11 Creating Snapshots of Files
- 20.12 Converting an Ext2, Ext3, or Ext4 File System to a Btrfs File System
- 20.13 Installing a Btrfs root File System
- 20.13.1 Setting up a New NFS Server
- 20.13.2 Configuring an Existing NFS Server
- 20.13.3 Setting up a New HTTP Server
- 20.13.4 Configuring an Existing HTTP Server
- 20.13.5 Setting up a Network Installation Server
- 20.13.6 Installing from a Network Installation Server
- 20.13.7 About the Installation root File System
- 20.13.8 Creating Snapshots of the root File System
- 20.13.9 Mounting Alternate Snapshots as the root File System
- 20.13.10 Deleting Snapshots of the root File System
- 20.14 Converting a Non-root Ext2 File System to Ext3
- 20.15 Converting a root Ext2 File System to Ext3
- 20.16 Creating a Local OCFS2 File System
- 20.17 About the XFS File System
- 20.18 Installing the XFS Packages
- 20.19 Creating an XFS File System
- 20.20 Modifying an XFS File System
- 20.21 Growing an XFS File System
- 20.22 Freezing and Unfreezing an XFS File System
- 20.23 Setting Quotas on an XFS File System
- 20.24 Backing up and Restoring XFS File Systems
- 20.25 Defragmenting an XFS File System
- 20.26 Checking and Repairing an XFS File System
This chapter describes administration tasks for the btrfs, ext3, ext4, OCFS2, and XFS local file systems.