filesystem-block-device

relationship between filesystem and block device

tags: learning linux

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• block device : filesystem is one to one relationship

  • each block device can only have one filesystem on it
  • in other words, each block device can only be reformatted into one format

• block device could also have 0 filesystem on it.

  • simply means it’s raw physical device

• one physical device can be partitioned into multiple partitions

  • each become a block device on the system
  • each partition can have its own filesystem

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• filesystem-basics
• block-devices

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