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Linux Migration: Page 2 of 9

The most important command in Linux is man, or manual pages. The option set and functionality of most Linux commands are documented in the man system, so expect to use it often.

For starters, try man man. This will give you a description of the man command, along with command-line options. Don't know which command you're looking for? Searching for something to do with partitions? Try man -k partition.

But first, get to know the three essential parts of Linux: the disk and file subsystem, the network subsystem and the windowing subsystem.

We'll begin with the disk and file subsystem: On an Intel platform, Linux uses the same "only four primary partitions allowed per physical disk" scheme you've come to know and love in the Wintel world, along with the same logical-partition scheme. These get formatted in much the same way as Windows partitions. There are several types of file systems. The NTFS-equivalent for Linux is ext2fs, but there are other file systems as well, such as journaling file systems.





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