He is the closest friend I have here in Singapore so far, he is really sweet, he cooks for me and he really cooks well, he is my team mate and in just a short span of time we became really good friends.  We even actually think that there’s already a hearsay that we are together, hahaha knowing that he is married and I’m recently separated. I actually would prefer that and I really don’t mind, I would rather be linked to him than any other guys, it’s actually doing me good so those creepy guys would stop smiling and staring at me.  He hates it, I love it hahahaha

We never had a dull moment when we are together, we always talk, on person, on phone, and even in chat during work.  We talk almost about everything, from personal life, love life, sex life, work life, other people lives hahahaha.  We usually call each other during our way to office and ask where we are and how still far are we in office, and during our conversation earlier this morning I told him my torrent download now is super fine as I was having trouble with my download speed a few days back and I downloaded Fedora 12 and CentOS 5.4 with less than an hour, then he suggested RHEL 5, I want to but it’s too hard to find seeders for that, then he let me borrowed his redhat account :D and I’m downloading it now :D

He is really a funny guy who screams like a girl :D but he’s the best

Our work are mostly on filesystem so I need to start there.

What is a filesystem and what is a mount point? Most people are confused with these two so I will explain here based on how I understand it.

A filesystem is basically the repository for all your files and as RedHat said that a filesystem is a disk drive by itself provides a place to store data, and nothing more.

To be able to access any filesystem you need mount it to make is available to the system. In order to do these you need a device file representing the desired disk and partition and a directory under which the mounted filesytem will be made available and that directory is known as the mount point.

When a filesystem is mounted, that filesystem is made available as a set of subdirectories under the specified mount point.

for example on a system we have a directory named unix and the full path would be /unix and assume that there is a filesystem to be mounted to that directory. If that filesystem had a file in it called sample.txt and you mount the filesystem to /unix, in that case,  you can access the file with the below full file specification.

/unix/sample.txt

If in you change the mount point of the filesystem to /linux the full file specification would be

/linux/sample.txt

To see what is mounted you can view /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts on Linux and /etc/mnttab on HP-UX, you can also use df command and bdf command for HP-UX.

While /etc/fstab is used to control what systems are mounted when the system boots, as well as to supply default values for other file systems that may be mounted manually from time to time.

This is it for now, we’ll continue on LVM