In the texts I study (like: LPIC_1 study guide by R.W. Smith), the linux partitions have been introduced directories split as /home, /boot, /usr and /etc...
Looking at what lsblk
returns as follows:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 195.2G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 146.5G 0 part /run/media/user/28082EC8082E953A
├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 500M 0 part /boot
└─sda6 8:6 0 123.5G 0 part
├─fedora-swap 253:0 0 7.9G 0 lvm [SWAP]
...
We can see SCSI drivers and their partitioning tree and their mount points (which were introduced as common partitions in linux as mentioned above.)
I'm kind of confused by the concept of partitioning in linux. Do we call the logical partitions of the physical disks (sda, sdb) partitioning or the directories such as /home or /boot or...?
If logical partitions of physical disks (sda1, sdb1 and ...) are the partitions, what do files like /dev/sda2
represent?