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File Systems

A file system implementation or a concrete file system (to distinguish from a virtual file system) gives a way to access data from regions of a disk that are associated with an inode.

A file system is a layer of abstraction above the physical disk.

Examples include: ext4, NTFS, etc

1 Example commands

  • mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb formats sdb so that it uses an EXT 4 file system
  • mkswap formats swap partition

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