Block Devices and Filesystems: A Learning Journey
I bought a new NVMe drive and decided this was as good a time as any to actually understand what I was doing instead of just copying commands from Stack Overflow until something worked. Here’s what I learned about block devices, partition tables, and why everyone still pretends sectors are 512 bytes when they haven’t been for years. Finding the Drive First step: figure out where the hell the new drive actually is. ...