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Btrfs is a copy-on-write Linux filesystem with built-in snapshots, subvolumes, data checksums, compression and multi-device storage management.
ext4 is the fourth extended filesystem, the journaling Linux filesystem that stores files in extents and is the default on many distributions.
A hard link in a Linux filesystem is an additional directory entry that points to the same inode as an existing file, so both names share…
An inode is the Linux filesystem record that stores a file's metadata and data locations, identified by a number and separate from the file's name.
LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, pools physical disks into volume groups and carves them into resizable logical volumes for server storage.
A mount point is a directory in the Linux filesystem tree where another filesystem is attached, making its contents reachable under that path.
A symbolic link is a Linux filesystem entry that stores a path to another file or directory, which the kernel follows transparently when the link is…
XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling Linux filesystem built for large files, parallel I/O and big volumes, and the default in many enterprise systems.
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Swap is disk space a server uses as overflow for RAM, letting the kernel move idle memory pages out so active processes…