Linux › Section D · Disks and filesystems › Topic D.2
Filesystem types, creating, and checking filesystems
A partition is only an empty run of sectors until you put a filesystem on it. This topic compares the filesystems Linux uses, shows how mkfs builds one and how fsck checks it, and explains why both commands deserve respect.
In this topic
- What a filesystem does
- The common types
- Journals and why they matter
- Creating a filesystem with mkfs
- Worked example: formatting a data partition
- Superblocks, blocks and inodes
- Worked example: counting inodes
- Checking with fsck
- Other filesystems and special types
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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