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The importance of Linux partitions

An operating system like Windows / Linux can be installed on a single, unpartitioned hard disk. However, the ability to divide a hard disk into multiple partitions offers some important advantages....

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Understanding UNIX / Linux filesystem Superblock

This is second part of "Understanding UNIX/Linux file system", part I is here. Let us take an example of 20 GB hard disk. The entire disk space subdivided into multiple file system blocks. And blocks...

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Surviving a Linux Filesystem Failures

When you use term filesystem failure, you mean corrupted filesystem data structures (or objects such as inode, directories, superblock etc. This can be caused by any one of the following reason: *...

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Understanding UNIX / Linux filesystem directories

You use DNS (domain name system) to translate between domain names and IP addresses. Similarly files are referred by file name, not by inode number. So what is the purpose of a directory? You can...

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Why isn’t it possible to create hard links across file system boundaries?

A single inode number use to represent file in each file system. All hard links based upon inode number. So linking across file system will lead into confusing references for UNIX or Linux. For...

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