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block device

noun

block device

noun
1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Unix An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.

  • The network block device is a block device offered by Linux. It behaves as a normal block device that can be formatted with any block-based file system and mounted for use.2016, Joel Reardon, Secure Data Deletion, Springer, →ISBN, page 137:

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