15.1 Management of Logical Storage Device
15.1.1 Partition Management
A disk can be divided into partitions that are spaces managed independently and divided logically. Partitions are also called “disk slices” or “disklabel”. The result of partitioning is managed by partition table in sector 0 of disk.
Chapter 15 Storage Device and Filesystem
Chapter’s Main Topics
This chapter describes the basic concepts of storage devices used to store data and how to manage storage devices by partitions, and explains how the structure of the file system provided by the Raspbian operating system basically is configured.
It includes descriptions on the following topics:
■ Logical storage device
■ Partition management
■ Format disk
■ Mount devic
■ Structure of file system