Disks, Partition Tables, Filesystems

Table of Contents:

• Partition Tables
• Mounting Filesystems
• Data Storage - Sectors, Blocks, and inodes
  • Hard and Symbolic Links
  • Archives and File Compression
• Bonus: Virtual Disks

Core Commands:

• du
• df
• fdisk
• gdisk
• mkfs
• tar
• ln
• stat

Explanatory Resources:

• Explainer: inodes & inode numbers - Eclectic Light Co

Historic Connections:

• 1956: IBM announced the world’s first HDD - Tom’s Hardware