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4.1 File Systems
4.1.2 Function and contents of superblock
The superblock contains information on the size of the file system, the number of inodes, the number of data blocks, the free and used inodes, and the block size for the file system. The superblock is kept in memory and in multiple locations on disk for each file system.
Unix System Administration - 8 AUG 1996
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