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Super block is supposed to be the first sector of any file system that can be mounted on Linux operating system.
It is supposed to contain information about the entire file system in that partition.
It has magic number to specify which file system is used in that partition and other parameters to help read/write to that file system.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 12y agoIn every File system on Linux, a Super Block contains information about the file system: like type, name, size, status, it is metadata(data about data) for a file system.
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