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by dhingra_manoj1

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I want to know about Linux Operating System internals. How Linux stores data in system area. Where is the Linux OS system area in Hard disk.

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by schannachie

Please remember that this OS is not like a MS win box. The files are ascii files and binary executable files. The OS is a unix flavor.

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by qnex

As you know Linux uses many types of filesystems, ranging from old FAT filesystem, through Extended 2 and Extended 3 to SGI's XFS, ReiserFS, IBM's JFS and so on...
Each and every filesystem stores data differently (otherwise there wouldn't be a reason to have so many of them, would it?).
So to conclude -- you should look for information about specific filesystem, most of them give detailed information you wish. For instance see the Reiserfs docs at http://www.reiserfs.org/ and links from that page.

HTH, HAND

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