Filesystem

retrieved.

devices, or remote file systems should be mounted into the file system.

be launched by the UEFI firmware.

Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately.

This directory contains everything required for the boot process except for configuration files not needed at boot time (the most notable of those being those that belong to the GRUB boot-loader) and the map installer.

The /dev directory contains the special device files for all the devices.

Apparently, many tools (among them udev) will soon require a /run/ directory that is mounted early (as tmpfs).

Deleting the filename doesn't actually delete the file.

directories," e.