block device
English
Noun
block device (plural block devices)
- (computing, UNIX) An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.
- Coordinate term: character device
- 2016, Joel Reardon, Secure Data Deletion, Springer, →ISBN, page 137:
- 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.
Further reading
block device on Wikipedia.Wikipedia