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  2. Boot sector - Wikipedia

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    When GRUB is installed on a hard disk, boot.img is written into the boot sector of that hard disk. boot.img has a size of only 446 bytes. A boot sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device (e.g., hard disk , floppy disk , optical disc , etc.) which contains machine code to be loaded into random-access memory (RAM) and then executed ...

  3. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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    Disk partitioning or disk slicing [1] is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. [2] These regions are called partitions. It is typically the first step of preparing a newly installed disk after a partitioning scheme is chosen for the new disk before any file system is created.

  4. Gmail - Wikipedia

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    Although the sender must use a Gmail account, the recipient does not need to be using a Gmail address. [86] [87] The feature has no transaction fees, but there are limits to the amount of money that can be sent. [88] Initially only available on the web, the feature was expanded to the Android app in March 2017, for people living in the United ...

  5. Android (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    Linux included the autosleep and wakelocks capabilities in the 3.5 kernel, after many previous attempts at a merger. The interfaces are the same but the upstream Linux implementation allows for two different suspend modes: to memory (the traditional suspend that Android uses), and to disk (hibernate, as it is known on the desktop). [206]