Understanding /dev
The /dev directory is a special directory where the contents are created by the kernel at installation time. This directory contains special files that allow users or applications to interact with physical and sometimes logical devices.
If we look at the previous ls command's results, we can see that within the /dev directory there are several files that begin with sd.
In the previous chapter, we learned that files that start with sd are actually seen as SCSI or SATA drives. In our case, we have both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb; this means, on this system, there are two physical SCSI or SATA drives.
The additional devices /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sdb1, and /dev/sdb2 are simply partitions of those disks. In fact, with disk drives, a ...
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