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and filesystems</p> </section> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION<a class="anchor" href="#DESCRIPTION">¶</a></h1> <p class="Pp">Section 5 of the manual describes various file formats, as well as the corresponding C structures, if any.</p> <p class="Pp">In addition, this section contains a number of pages that document various filesystems.</p> </section> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="NOTES">NOTES<a class="anchor" href="#NOTES">¶</a></h1> <section class="Ss"> <h2 class="Ss" id="Authors_and_copyright_conditions">Authors and copyright conditions<a class="anchor" href="#Authors_and_copyright_conditions">¶</a></h2> <p class="Pp">Look at the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and copyright conditions. 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