Storage Flashcards
What are Block Devices?
Read/write in blocks of data
What are examples of Block Devices?
Hard-drives, solid-state drives
What are Character Devices?
Read/write in character streams of data
What are examples of Character Devices?
Keyboards, mice, serial ports
What is EXT4?
Improves performance, reliability, and capacity from older versions of ext
Supports up to one exabyte volumes and 16 terabyte files
What is XFS?
A 64-bit journaling file system that provides fast recovery and can handle large files efficiently
What is Server Message Block (SMB)?
A client-server communication protocol used for sharing access to files, printers, serial ports and other resources on a network
What is Common Internet File System (CIFS)?
A version of of SMB implemented by SMB in 1996.
What is a Primary Partition?
Contains one file system or logical drive and is sometimes referred to as a volume
What is an Extended Partition?
Contains several file systems, which are referred to as logical drives
What is a Logical Partition?
Partitioned and allocated as an independent unit and functions as a seperate drive
What is fdisk?
A common used to create, modify, or delete partitions on a storage device
what does fdisk -b do?
Specify number of drive sectors
What does fdisk -H do?
Specify number of drive heads
What does fdisk -S do?
Specify number of tracks per sector
What does fdisk -s do?
Print partition size in blocks
What does fdisk -I do?
List partition tables for devices
What does fdisk -n do?
Create new partitions
What does fdisk -d do?
Remove partition
What does fdisk -p do?
List existing partitions
What does fdisk -w do?
Write drive changes and exit utility
What does fdisk -q do?
Cancel changes made and exit utility
What does parted do?
A command used to create, destroy, and resize partitions and runs the GNU Parted utility
What does select (parted) do?
Chooses a device or partition to modify
