Essay Database
File system overview - FAT, NTFS, EXT3
Date Submitted: 07/10/2003 04:03:03
FAT
The FAT (File Allocation Table) file system has its origins in the late 1970s and early1980s
and was the file system supported by the Microsoft MS-DOS operating system. It was
originally developed as a simple file system suitable for floppy disk drives less than 500K in
size. Over time it has been enhanced to support larger and larger media. Currently there are
three FAT file system types: FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32. The basic
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names without wasting space. The structure of a directory entry is shown in this table:
inode number<Tab/>entry length<Tab/>name length<Tab/>filename
Sources:
www.microsoft.com
www.ntfs.com
http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~calz/ermlinks/filesys.htm
http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1154&nIdPage=7
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html
http://www.wlug.org.nz/FileAllocationTable
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