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This repository is a large, curated set of Linux/*nix system administration questions and answers organized as an informal self-test. It spans fundamentals like filesystems, permissions, processes, and networking, then ventures into security, performance, virtualization, containers, and databases. The format encourages quick drills: pick a topic, answer from memory, then compare against concise explanations. Many questions highlight real-world troubleshooting patterns rather than purely theoretical trivia, reflecting what admins face daily. ...

...Some functionality may also be useful in more general Motorola 6809 centered projects. CocoCommons provides a set of libraries for common tasks such as reading DECB and RBF filesystems, interpretting common file formats, and displaying CoCo-like screens. These are used extensively in the DriveWire 4 project and the upcoming nineserver project. In time it these libraries should implement most of the functionality now found in the Toolshed project.

Filesystems can avoid fragmentation if they know how large files will be. This library provides a wrapper for the fallocate() syscall (like glibc-2.10+), but also knows the xfs/ocfs2 ioctl and provides fallbacks better than posix_fallocate().