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ext3 is the default file system for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
For linux file system creation there are many utilities.Example commands and utilities to create partitions:fdiskcfdiskcgdiskpartedGPartedFile system types:NTFSextext2ext3ext4swapfatbtrfs...All basically does the same with slight added or reduced functionality
For Linux, use the 'mv' command, which is a rename
For TAR archives, you use tar -cvf .
/etc/ncsd.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf
You can't resize a mounted partition, so you can't resize the root file system while the installed copy of Linux is running. To resize it, you should use a LiveCD like GParted that contains a partition editor.
As 'Linux' is actually the Linux Kernel and a bunch of other tools packaged together as a distro, this will depend on the distro you use. For example, Red Hat Linux uses a file called ks.cfg (known as kickstart) which contains information for it's installer system called Anaconda.
it is usually in : /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
/etc/nswitch.conf
There is no "last file" to Linux, as 1.) there is no specification as to what files need to be present in a Linux system, other than the kernel, 2.) you would have to define whether "last" meant the last file placed on the disk, or the last file in alphabetical order, and 3.) the system may use an initial ram disk, which has additional files in a compressed form, and will create device nodes upon boot.
Under Windows I believe the only file system with full support for this is NTFS. On the Mac its standard HFS+ file system has always supported this. On Unix and Linux all native file systems supported this.