What operating system do you use? Linux, Windows or Mac? Whatever the operating system you are using it doesn’t matter. You will be storing files in it. Every operating system uses their kind of file system. Windows uses NTFS, Linux uses FAT and there are different types of FAT systems too. So, to create any operating system the first and fore most thing that needs to be decided is what file system to use. There are plenty of options available and all of them have their advantages and disadvantages. In this web tutorial or you may call it an article we are going to share you the basics of file system.

How many of you know what kind of file system your mobile, laptop or tablet is using? Why particularly that file system, what makes it stand out. Let me know in the comments if you know. Continue reading to know about what file system and types of file system is. Even if you know just read it you may get to know something you don’t know.

What is File System?

Not going much deeper to keep it as simple as possible. File system defines how data is stored in storage media (hard drives, SD cards, pen drives).

Any file system requires operating system and support like in the form of driver or application to operate and run

File system has two components

• Files
• Metadata

Files:

These are actual files you store in your storage drive

Metadata:

Meta data is information about the files.

File tables are very important in any file system. They contain information about files, free space in hard drive, ownership details and their permissions, creation, modified dates, access information for users, quotas (if you want some users to get 1GB and other group of users 2GB you can configure that in quota section) and much more information is stored in here.

There will also be special files for example dev directory in Linux. It won’t have files but pointers to specific pieces of hardware for operation of OS.

File system should be able to differentiate between files folders.

These are some of the things that wraps up every basic you require to understand about file system. In our next tutorial or article lets discuss about FAT file system.

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