LINUX partitions are of two types:-
1. Physical Partitions
2. Logical Partitions
Physical Partitions are those which has FILE SYSTEMS like ext2, ext3 i.e extended version file system 2 and extended version file system 3.
Logical Partitions are those which has directories for every for any data or configuration files.These are:-
1. Root: acting as the administrator
2. Boot: for bootable files
3. Bin: binary data
4. sbin: super user commands
5. temp: has temporary files created after the normal data file
6. etc: contains configuration file
7. lib: contains all library files
8. media: contains third party files i.e any third device or additional device
9. dev: peripheral device files
10. usr: information about the user files
11. home: it contains the user files
These are helpful in storing the data in appropriate form so that the data will not be lost in any chance.
1. Physical Partitions
2. Logical Partitions
Physical Partitions are those which has FILE SYSTEMS like ext2, ext3 i.e extended version file system 2 and extended version file system 3.
Logical Partitions are those which has directories for every for any data or configuration files.These are:-
1. Root: acting as the administrator
2. Boot: for bootable files
3. Bin: binary data
4. sbin: super user commands
5. temp: has temporary files created after the normal data file
6. etc: contains configuration file
7. lib: contains all library files
8. media: contains third party files i.e any third device or additional device
9. dev: peripheral device files
10. usr: information about the user files
11. home: it contains the user files
These are helpful in storing the data in appropriate form so that the data will not be lost in any chance.