8.1 Flashcards
1
Q
A region on a hard disk that can be managed by an operating system.
A
partition
2
Q
A MBR partition that contains only one file system.
A
primary partition
3
Q
An optional partition that can contain multiple logical partitions, each with their own file system
A
extended partition
4
Q
A partition contained in an extended partition.
A
logical partition
5
Q
An interface for a device driver that appears in the Linux file system under the /dev directory.
A
device file
6
Q
The master boot record must be installed in the first 512 bytes of the hard disk.
Only four standard partitions can be created on a storage device.
The default block size of 512 bytes limits partitions to a maximum size of 2 TB.
A
The MBR partition format many limitations:
