3 Comments on “What does the superblock in Linux define?”

1. linofsl says:

   November 26, 2018 at 2:40 pm

   Superblock Definition. A superblock is a record of the characteristics of a filesystem, including its size, the block size, the empty and the filled blocks and their respective counts, the size and location of the inode tables, the disk block map and usage information, and the size of the block groups.14 de ago de 2005

2. jansen9 says:

   December 13, 2018 at 11:27 am

   Superblocks store metadata of the file system. As it stores critical information about the file system, preventing corruption of superblocks is of utmost importance.

   When a partition or disk is formatted, the sectors in the hardisk is first divided into small groups. This groups of sectors is called as blocks.

   The inode (index node) is a data structure that describes a file-system object such as a file or a directory. Each inode stores the attributes and disk block location(s) of the object’s data.

3. jansen9 says:

   December 20, 2018 at 7:18 pm

   Q: What does the superblock in Linux define? (Choose all that apply.)

   Superblock: The boot blocks are followed by the superblock, which contains information about the geometry of the physical disk, the layout of the partition, number of inodes (information node) and data blocks, and much more.

   Answer is not just C.