Shell Tips !

You probably already ask you : “which filesystem can I use on my web servers or database server ?” Usually you will use the well know Ext3-fs but what about the others ?

I will just try to give you some clue about some other common filesystems. The filesystem aspect of your server is really important and your choice will vary with your running application. As exemple, a mail server will have more performances with a Reiserfs filesystem than with Ext3-fs.

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Aliases allow a string to be substituted for a word when it is used as the first word of a simple command. The shell maintains a list of aliases that may be set and unset with the alias and unalias builtin commands.

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