filesystem-basics

what’s filesystem

tags: learning linux

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• physical devices themselves are empty warehouses that provide physical space for storage, but don’t know how to organize data
• filesystem is a database that transform a block device (empty warehouse) into hierarchy of files and dirs

my misconception:

• kept thinking that this tree structure of linux dirs is filesystem

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  /mnt

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  this is just directory hierarchical structure it’s NOT filesystem

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• filesystem is the thing that you format a partition with

up

• block-devices

down

• mounting

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