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Magnetic fields. The disk surface is divided into circular tracks and each track is divided into sectors. Each sector is a certain constant number of bytes long. Whole sectors are read or written at a time. A filesystem is overlaid on this hardware managed structure with reserved spaces for the volume name/info, main/root directory, allocated space tracking, special file attributes, etc. so the operating system can access and manage the disk.

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