Abbreviations

Often abbreviations are used in documentations. Perhaps easy and familiar to the experienced user, but not for the beginner. Let's hope this list may help:

A

 * AAM: Automatic Acoustic Management - technology to reduce hard drive seek noise
 * ACL: Access Control Lists
 * AFP: Apple Filing Protocol
 * APM: Advanced Power Management

C

 * CLI: Command Line Interface
 * CIFS: Common Internet File System, (SMB/CIFS)

D

 * DAAP: Digital Audio Access Protocol

E

 * EXT3: Third Extended Filesystem
 * EXT4: Fourth Extended Filesystem

F

 * FTP: File Transfer Protocol

G

 * GUI: Graphical User Interface

J

 * JBOD: 'Just a Bunch Of Disks'
 * JFS: Journaled File System

L

 * LVM: Logical Volume Manager

N

 * NFS: Network File System
 * NTP: Network Time Protocol

O

 * OMV: OpenMediaVault

R

 * RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Disks

S

 * S.M.A.R.T.: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
 * SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
 * SSH: Secure Shell
 * SMB: Server Message Block (SMB/CIFS)

T

 * TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol

U

 * UI: User Interface
 * UPS: Uninterruptible Power Supply

W

 * WebGUI: Web-based Graphical User Interface

X

 * XFS: A high-performance journaling file system