Workshop

The Workshop summarizes the key terms you learned and poses some questions about the topics presented in this chapter. It also provides you with a preview of what you will learn in the next hour.

Key Terms

access permission The set of accesses (read, write, and execute) allowed for each of the three classes of users (owner, group, and everyone else) for each file or directory on the system.

block At its most fundamental, a block is like a sheet of information in the virtual notebook that represents the disk: A disk is typically composed of many tens, or hundreds, of thousands of blocks of information, each 512 bytes in size. You also might read the explanation of i-node in the glossary at the back of the book to learn more about how ...

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