Summary
Managing disks is a critical component of the overall system administration. A disk is composed of hardware components, such as platters, spindle, tracks, cylinders, sector, shaft, and disk controller, and software components, such as disk labels and device drivers.
A disk slice is a group of cylinders used by a file system. Eight disk slices are assigned to file systems. You can locate a file system in a disk slice by using a logical disk name. The file system in a disk is read in a specific logical order that includes slice number, drive number, physical bus target number, logical controller number, and disk subdirectory. The reading of data in the defined order is important because the use of the block and raw device interfaces by ...
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