1. Discuss their experiences with different filesystems. What are some of the reasons why they might typically choose one filesystem over another? What Windows file systems do they typically use and why? Why might one administrator choose one Linux filesystem over another?

2. Discuss some of the reasons why they feel an administrator might impose a disk quota system on a Linux server. What are some of the possible disadvantages of implementing a general quota upon all corporate users? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using hard quotas vs. soft quotas?

1. Research online to discover the primary differences among the ext2, ext3, ext4, and reiserfs filesystems. Have them outline the major differences among the four and provide reasons why an administrator might opt to choose one filesystem over another based on the purpose of a partition.

2. Research online to discover some of the third-party disk utilities that are capable of working with Linux, Windows, or both. Have them focus more on those utilities that are capable of working with both Linux and Windows partitions, outlining the capabilities that these tools provide.