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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Amazing information. This really helps de-mystify the concept of the file system.
Given that EXT is a free and open source file system, I really do wish the major closed source OSes would integrate it into their systems as an option. I'd much rather use EXT4 over, say, HFS+ or FAT*.
Great article. It's probably worth mentioning that an alias overrides things in your PATH. So if I alias foo='bar', then the command located at /usr/bin/foo doesn't get run. To circumvent the alias and run the actual command, one can use the \ character; so '\foo' ignores the alias and runs whatever foo is found in the PATH. Alternately, one could just type the full path to foo.