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  • What tools can we use to partion disks on Linux and Windows CLI?
    On Windows we can use Diskpart and on Linux we can use Parted Tool
  • What is the difference between a program and a process?
  • What is the risk of reformatting a disk?
  • What is another common term for 'background processes'?
    Daemon processes
  • here is an example of a linux command: less /etc/some_file | grep Hello ; what is the parent process and what is the child process?
    here, 'less' is the parent and 'grep' is the child
  • What does it mean for processes to have a 'parent- child' relationship?
  • What is disk fragmentation? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Why would you want to defragment a hard disk drive?
  • What does it mean to mount a disk?
  • What file system would you want to use on an updated Windows computer: Fat32, Ext4 or NTFS?
    NTFS