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Partitioning Hard Drives

 
  • Hard drives are divided into partitions

  • Partitions normally contain file systems

    • Primary, extended, and logical partitions
    • The default filesystem type is ext3
    • Multiple partitions may be assembled into a larger virtual partition: software RAID and LVM
  • Filesystems are accessed via a mount point, which is a designated directory in the file system hierarchy.