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block device en · NOUN
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(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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character device