FILE SYSTEMS

File Systems



File Systems

Introduction

A file system is a set of rules structuring the management of information, but software manages the same. This means that a file system tells the operating system that it should split the data on disk, and determine where they are located, created, moved, renamed or deleted. This structure is usually hierarchical, with a root directory and a certain number of sub directories and files.

Discussion

In Windows, root directory is identified with the drive letter followed by ": \". Parent folders of files (or subdirectories) are symbolized by a name and then "\" and the files are named ...