file systems
Digital folder structures
A file system is the method an operating system uses to organize and store data on a disk or other storage device.
It determines how files are named, arranged in directories, and retrieved.
Common file systems include NTFS for Windows, ext4 for Linux, and APFS for Mac.
Different file systems handle permissions, maximum file sizes, and recovery from crashes differently: The drive was formatted with an incompatible file system.
- NTFSMicrosoft's proprietary filesystem
- directoryFile system container
- mountClimb up or steed
- root directoryTopmost filesystem location
- storageSpace for keeping goods
cluster · hard drive · paths · block · sector · FAT32 · hierarchy · partition · tree · journaling · metadata · folder · volume · archive · disk · backup · format · encryption
- computingcomputer, computers, software, hardware, code
- media organizationcataloging, tagging, indexing, labels, albums
- Linuxkernel, bash, root, sudo, chmod
- disk managementformatting, partitioning, disk utility, disk management, disk cleanup
- digital mediawebsites, films, ebook, content creation, movies
- digital filesdocument, image, documents, video, folders
storage permanence/structure
file systemsvolatile memory
Storage requiring constant power
RAM · registers · cache memory · working memory · cache