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Operating Systems Linux What is the difference between Linux and Windows? Post 302641691 by Corona688 on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:48:52 AM

05-16-2012

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There's not really a simple comparison, they have pretty much nothing in common except the concept of files(but not folders).

For example: Windows uses drive letters to specify different partitions. Linux just puts different partitions inside different folders, and can put them wherever asked(i.e. / is one partition, while a folder inside it, /home/, could be attached to a different partition, or just left inside / if not ).

Linux has a very simple but powerful system for managing users. Users are simply lines of text inside /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Managing users inside Windows on the other hand is very complex and involves many separate files for each user.

Linux does not require a GUI. Windows has one built in inextricably.

And on, and on, and on. Linux was not built with Windows in mind and doesn't relate to it.

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addpart

ADDPART(8)                                                     System Administration                                                    ADDPART(8)

NAME

       addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

SYNOPSIS

       addpart device partition start length

DESCRIPTION

       addpart  tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition.  The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition"
       ioctl.

       This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.

PARAMETERS

       device The disk device.

       partition
              The partition number.

       start  The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

       length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

SEE ALSO

       delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

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