Across
- 4. What feature in filesystems helps prevent data corruption by tracking changes before applying them?
- 7. What term refers to a container for unique names, often used in programming and system resources?
- 10. What is a logical section of a hard drive that allows for multiple filesystems or operating systems?
- 11. What standard is used for connecting storage devices like hard drives and optical drives to a computer’s motherboard?
- 14. What network-based boot system allows a computer to start without local storage?
- 17. What special symbol is used in shells to represent patterns, such as wildcards or redirection operators?
- 19. What system enables flexible volume management, including resizing and snapshots, on Linux?
- 20. What high-speed interface is designed for modern SSDs to outperform SATA?
Down
- 1. What firmware initializes hardware components before an operating system loads?
- 2. What storage interface standard replaced PATA with faster data transfer speeds?
- 3. What structure is used to manage and organize files on a storage device?
- 5. What older interface standard was used to connect hard drives before SATA?
- 6. What standard ensures compatibility between Unix-like operating systems?
- 8. What older disk interface was replaced by SATA for improved speed and efficiency?
- 9. What are the values or parameters passed to a command or function in a shell or programming language?
- 12. What modern partitioning scheme replaces MBR and supports large storage devices?
- 13. What older partitioning scheme contains the bootloader and partition table but is limited to 2TB disks?
- 15. What storage interface is used in enterprise environments for high-performance data access?
- 16. What program processes user commands and executes them in a command-line environment?
- 18. What term describes an instruction entered into a shell to perform a specific task?