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</code></pre>

    <p>The first area contains the bootloader and the kernel, the second is a
superblock with a magic string to identify the file system, the third is a
bitmap mapping the allocated data blocks of the last area.</p>

    <p>A location on the tree of dirs and files is named a path:</p>

    <ul>
    <li>The root dir is represented by a slash: <code>/</code></li>
    <li>A dir inside the root will have its name appended to the slash: <code>/usr</code></li>
    <li>Subsequent dirs will