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Disks and partitions

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Disks and partitions

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- [Instructor] Let's take a few minutes to explore data storage devices on Linux. In between the physical hard drive and the files in your file browser, there are a few layers of organization that help keep things where they need to be. A hard drive, or a solid-state device, can be thought of as a whole bunch of empty little containers, each with their own address. These spaces, or sectors, are designed to store pieces of data that make up the files we use. Different types of storage have different sector sizes. Many hard disks use sector sizes of either 512 bytes or four kilobytes, and SSDs use sectors of 512 kilobytes. We can store a file on this kind of device without a little bit of abstraction, though. For that, we need to start organizing these sectors the device gives us, and designate groups of them to use for storage. We could use all of them, or set up an imaginary line across them to divide them into different areas or partitions. And on top of these partitions, we apply a…

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