![]() Some common file system types are listed below: The commands above, not only list the known devices, but will also detect the file system type. The mount command can attempt to auto-detect, but in most cases it is better to specify the file system if known. Once a device is identified, it can be mounted based on the file system specification. The main point being, disks are listed as a file in a directory, they are interpreted as a device by the operating system. ![]() And for legacy support, floppy disks are defined as /dev/fd0. Depending on the distribution of Linux, optical media such as CD/DVDs can be listed as /dev/scd, /dev/sro or even /dev/cdrom. Each partition on each disk will sequentially increment as /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3 ……. The first physical disk is listed in the /dev/ directory as “sda” and additional disk are added alphabetically.
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