Part I File Systems and Mounting

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ships with a number of different file systems from which to choose, including Btrfs, Ext4, Ext3, Ext2, ReiserFS and XFS. Each file system has its own advantages and disadvantages. For a side-by-side feature comparison of the major operating systems in SUSE Linux Enterpri…

Resizing file systems—not to be confused with resizing partitions or volumes—can be used to make space available on physical volumes or to make use of additional space available on a physical volume.

This section describes the use of UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) instead of device names (such as /dev/sda1) to identify file system devices. Starting with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, UUIDs are used by default in the boot loader file and the /etc/fstab file.