KLUG Meeting Minutes and Agenda (#41) The 41st meeting of the Kingston Linux User Group was held Tues, Mar, 12, 2002, 7PM at RMC. The meeting lasted until about 9:30 PM. The attendees were: Conrad-Avarmaa, Brigitte Couldrey, Ross Drummond, Mark Jezak, Edward Jones, Brock <9bfj@qlink.queensu.ca> Kasiadis, Kali Leigh, Chris (chris@leighnet.ca> Miller, George Mitton, Doug Murrel, Brian J. Nagy, Daniel Szafranski, Mike Meeting Schedule: 42 Tue. Apr. 9, 2002 - "System Administration II" 43 Tue. May 14, 2002 - "Compiling a Kernel" 44 Tue. Jun 11, 2002 - "Introduction To TCP/IP Networking" Summary Of Activities: - Web page and domain - http://www.klug.on.ca/ - Hosted by Internet Kingston! (Thanks!) - We also have klug.ca registered but it is not yet activated. - Mailing List: Send an email with "subscribe klug-general" in the body to majordomo@klug.on.ca - or "subscribe klug-security" in the body to majordomo@klug.on.ca - Usenet Group - kingston.os.linux (General, not just KLUG) Agenda/Minutes: 1) Roll Call and Introductions (if required) - See attendees above. 2) This Meeting: There were 12 attendees to our 30th presentation "System Administration I" by Mark Drummond. Tonights presentation evolved into a round-table discussion of what most considered Administration I subjects. The basic discussion revolved around filesystems, hierarchy, inodes, linux file types and conversions between file systems. The first topic discussed was file systems and the use and characteristics of each. The general types including minix, ext2, ext3, reiserfs and xfs were discussed to various degrees and the special types msdos, (v)fat, iso9660, udf and romfs. Journaling was covered and includes the ext3, reiserfs and xfs types. This filesystem keeps a record or journal of all transactions and is meant to be reliably recovered if a crash occurs. The LVM (Linux Volume Manager) was discussed as a system to manage multiple file system types as well as the ability and limitations in switching between them. The side discussion on the benefits of ext2 vs ext3 was interesting. It was pointed out that the "tune2fs -j" command can be used to convert from the "standard" linux ext2 file system to the new ext3 journaling system. The Linux/UNIX file system hierarchy was discussed and included the dir, pipes, files, devices and inodes. The relatuion ship between dir files and inodes was also explained. The commands to create these various file types were presented as mkdir, mknod, mkfile and mkfifo. That wrapped up the evening and thanks to Mark and all who attended and participated. 3) Next Meeting: Tue, Apr 9, 2002 - "System Administration II"