Chapter 11Handling Storage
The world runs on data. Whether it's an employee database, a folder with all of your family pictures, or just your weekly bowling scores, the ability to save and retrieve data is a must for every application. Linux provides lots of different ways to store and manage files for applications. This chapter first discusses the basics of how Linux handles storage devices, and then it walks through how you use those methods to manage data in a Linux environment.
Storage Basics
The most common way to persistently store data on computer systems is to use a hard disk drive (HDD) ...
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