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182 Appendix F:An Introduction to Disk Partitions
a wide variety of filesystems (including many commonly used by other operating systems), making
data interchange between different filesystems easy.
Figure F–3 Disk Drive with a Different Filesystem
Of course, writing a filesystem to disk is only the beginning. The goal of this process is to actually
store and retrieve data. Let us take a look at our drive after some files have been written to it.