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Old 11-22-2016
Question about Volume Boot Record

Hello and thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer

Hopefully this is a simple question but is the Volume Boot Record (VBR) only used in Windows? I've seen references to it in relationship to Windows & not Linux... but I'm not sure if that means it's unique to Windows or not. If it is used in Linux can someone give me a quick run down on the criteria of when it would be used?

Could someone straighten me out there please? Thanks!
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Old 11-22-2016
It's the first sector of a partition. MBR is the first sector of an entire disk.
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