1. What purpose do drive partitions serve? 2. What is the relationship between a drive's block capacity and the partitions maintained on the drive? 3. On Linux, how are a drive partitions referenced as devices i.e. / dev/sxxx 4. How are the logical blocks of a partition addressed relative to the physical blocks on the drive?

1. What purpose do drive partitions serve? 2. What is the relationship between a drive's block capacity and the partitions maintained on the drive? 3. On Linux, how are a drive partitions referenced as devices i.e. / dev/sxxx 4. How are the logical blocks of a partition addressed relative to the physical blocks on the drive?

Database System Concepts

7th Edition

ISBN:9780078022159

Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Chapter1: Introduction

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