disk. Disklabels were introduced in the 4.3BSD-Tahoe release. Disklabels are usually edited using the disklabel utility. In later versions of FreeBSD, this...
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NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It was the first open-source BSD descendant...
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Apple Partition Map (APM) Boot Engineering Extension Record (BEER) BSD disklabel Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) Extended Boot Record (EBR) Host Protected...
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for fdisk on macOS as of 2019. For native partitions, BSD systems traditionally use BSD disklabel, and fdisk partitioning is supported only on certain...
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is used in the FreeBSD operating system to refer to Master Boot Record partitions, to avoid confusion with FreeBSD's own disklabel-based partitioning...
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Server 2008, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10), Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, and MacOS. TestDisk handles non-partitioned and partitioned...
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partitioning of disks that use Master boot record, GUID Partition Table, BSD disklabel, SGI or SUN disk labels. It also provides information about mount points...
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GEOM (category FreeBSD)
Map) geom_part_bsd (supports BSD disklabel) geom_part_bsd64 (supports the 64-bit variant of BSD disklabels, as used by DragonFly BSD) geom_part_ebr (supports...
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DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early...
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complex partitioning schemes, such as extended boot records (EBRs), BSD disklabels, or Logical Disk Manager metadata partitions. The MBR is not located...
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(guessable) filesystem or partition types: BeOS Be File System. FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD BSD disklabel sub-partitioning scheme used on Intel platforms. IBM OS/2 High...
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Master Boot Record (MBR) Volume Boot Record (VBR) Disk partitioning BSD disklabel Logical Block Addressing (LBA) Disk editor Partition alignment Logical...
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is a bit field composed of the flags: Amiga rigid disk block (RDB) BSD disklabel Extended boot record (EBR) GUID Partition Table (GPT) Host protected...
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Matthew Dillon (category BSD people)
engineer known for Amiga software, contributions to FreeBSD and for starting and leading the DragonFly BSD project since 2003. Dillon studied electronic engineering...
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HAMMER2 (category DragonFly BSD)
production in April 2018, as the recommended root filesystem in the Dragonfly BSD 5.2 release. Dillon continues to actively develop and maintain HAMMER2 as...
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Boot Engineering Extension Record (BEER) Apple Partition Map (APM) BSD disklabel The .ADF (Amiga Disk File) format FAQ; 6. The structure of a hard disks...
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HAMMER (file system) (category DragonFly BSD)
high-availability 64-bit file system developed by Matthew Dillon for DragonFly BSD using B+ trees. Its major features include infinite NFS-exportable snapshots...
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Write Ahead Physical Block Logging (category NetBSD)
NetBSD. The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. (2008). "sys/wapbl.h". BSD Cross Reference. NetBSD. The NetBSD Project (2009-04-29). "Announcing NetBSD 5.0". NetBSD...
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Vkernel (category BSD software)
virtualisation and compartmentalisation of system resources. It is used by DragonFly BSD in its vkernel implementation since DragonFly 1.7, having been first revealed...
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CHFS (category NetBSD)
the first open source flash memory-specific file system written for the NetBSD operating system. Intended usage is over raw flash devices on embedded systems...
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2014-09-07. "Disk Organization". FreeBSD Handbook. FreeBSD. 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-30. "Partitions". The NetBSD Guide. NetBSD. 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-30. "openSUSE...
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