Q&A
| Q1: | Is a floppy disk a volume, a partition, or a filesystem? How about a hard disk? |
| A1: | A floppy disk is generally all three because floppies are seldom partitioned. But a hard disk that has been partitioned has several volumes, also known as partitions, within it. Each volume is potentially a filesystem. |
| Q2: | What's the difference between /bin and /sbin or between /usr/bin and /usr/sbin? |
| A2: | Executable programs that have the capability to alter the system's operation are generally kept in the sbin directories, whereas executables that simply perform user functions live in the bin directories. For instance, /bin and /usr/bin contain tools such as ls, less, and top; but /sbin and /usr/sbin have tools such as mount, fsck, ifconfig, and others that ... |
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