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| Basic Input Output System (BIOS) |
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| The first software that is started when a computer starts on older IBM-compatible computers. |
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| A general-purpose Linux file system that is expected to become the default file system on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a future release. |
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| Older versions of the Ext file system. Were default file systems up to RHEL 6 |
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| Older version of the Ext file system. Was replaced by XFS in RHEL 7 |
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| A solution to create more than four partitions on an MBR disk. |
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| A configuration file that is used on Linux to mount file systems automatically when the system starts. |
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| GUID Partition Table (GPT) |
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| A modern solution to store partitions on a hard disk, as opposed to the older MBR partition table. |
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| A name that can be assigned to a file system. |
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| A partition that is created in an extended partition. |
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| On a BIOS system, the first 512 bytes on the primary hard disk. |
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| A connection that is made between a device and a directory. |
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| A subdivision of a hard disk on which a file system can be created to mount it into the directory structure. |
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| In MBR, one of a maximum of four partitions that can be created in the Master Boot Record. |
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| The command that is used to decouple a file system from the directory on which it is mounted. |
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| universally unique ID (UUID) |
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| An identification number consisting of a long random hexadecimal number that is globally unique. |
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| The Linux kernel driver that is used to access FAT-based file systems. |
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| A high-performance 64-bit file system that was created in 1993 by SGI and which in RHEL 8 is used as the default file system. |
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