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diff --git a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml index bd442d5e2..5eedf456e 100644 --- a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml +++ b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ <para>A partition is just a range of sectors on a disk drive, delimited by boundaries set in a partition table. Before the operating system can use - a blank partition, the partition must be formatted to contain a file + a partition to store any files, the partition must be formatted to contain a file system, typically consisting of a label, directory blocks, data blocks, and an indexing scheme to locate a particular file on demand. The file system also helps the OS keep track of free space on the partition, reserve the |