SYA710 Lab01

SYA710 Lab #1

Focus: Working With File Systems

PART A: Perform the following steps:

1. Power on your PC and boot up Fedora 8 Test and login as 'joker' with password 'seneca99'.
2. Open a console window and switch to superuser with this command:
   
   su -
   
   
3. Create a regular file (filled with zeros) which will be the container for our file system. Use this command:
   
   dd if=/dev/zero of=fakedisk bs=1024 count=10000
   
   
4. Use the losetup command to associate your file with /dev/loop0 like this:
   
   losetup /dev/loop0 fakedisk
   
   
5. Now create a file system in the container:
   
   mkfs -t ext2 /dev/loop0
   
   
6. Make a directory to be a mount point for the file system:
   
   mkdir /mnt1
   
   
7. Mount the file system:
   
   mount /dev/loop0 /mnt1
   
   
8. Record the output of the following command:
   
   df -Thi /dev/loop0
   
   
9. Unmount the file system
   
   umount /mnt1
   
   
10. Delete the loop device
    
    losetup -d /dev/loop0
    
    
11. Delete the fakedisk file.
    
12. Answer the questions 1 to 4 in PART D, then do PART B.