Linux has several filesystem drivers for the File Allocation Table (FAT) filesystem format. These are commonly known by the names used in the mount command...
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File Allocation Table (redirect from FAT filesystem)
File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default filesystem for the MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems...
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the case of a LTSP fat client, the root filesystem is not a rudimentary chroot but a full Linux installation as a chroot. The fat client uses LDM to authenticate...
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File system (redirect from Linux filesystems)
In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access. A local file system is a capability of...
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List of file systems (redirect from List of filesystems)
journaled filesystem with support for extents. ext3cow – A versioning file system form of ext3. FAT – File Allocation Table, initially used on DOS and Microsoft...
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Comparison of file systems Drive letter assignment exFAT Extended Boot Record (EBR) FAT filesystem and Linux List of file systems Master Boot Record (MBR) Partition...
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Virtual file system (redirect from Virtual filesystem)
Ultrix, and the VFS in Linux. In OS/2 and Microsoft Windows, the virtual file system mechanism is called the Installable File System. The Filesystem in Userspace...
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between Windows, Linux and macOS platforms for files in excess of 4 GB. Other specifications, features, and requirements of the exFAT file system include:...
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Comparison of file systems (redirect from Comparison of filesystems)
System drivers and operating systems may not support extended attributes, access control lists or security labels on these filesystems. Linux kernels prior...
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NTFS (redirect from New Technology FileSystem)
security and other limitations with FAT. NTFS adds several features that FAT and HPFS lack including: access control lists (ACLs); filesystem encryption;...
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Fstab (section Filesystem-specific options)
filesystems. Some file systems such as XFS enable ACLs by default. Default file system mount attributes can be overridden in /etc/fstab. owner (Linux-specific)...
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specializes in booting full Linux installations from FAT filesystems. It is often used for boot or rescue floppy discs, live USBs, and other lightweight boot...
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Extended file attributes (section Linux)
by the filesystem, whereas regular attributes have a purpose strictly defined by the filesystem (such as permissions or records of creation and modification...
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Unix, Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems. Linux has full support for XFS and JFS, FAT (the DOS file system), and HFS, the main file system...
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Extent (file systems) (redirect from Extent-based filesystem)
Ext4 – Linux filesystem (when the configuration enables extents – the default in Linux since version 2.6.23) Files-11 – OpenVMS filesystem HFS and HFS Plus –...
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Device file (redirect from Dev filesystem)
Management and Administration". Linux Journal. Daniel Robbins (2001-10-01). "Part 4: Introduction to devfs". Common threads: Advanced filesystem implementor's...
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Wubi (software) (redirect from Wubi (Linux distribution))
disk image file in the Windows filesystem contains a Linux filesystem whereas without Wubi only the Linux filesystem is used that has direct hardware...
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Slackware (redirect from Slackware Linux)
complete Linux system as a Zip file. The installation will fit on a FAT formatted Zip disk, or works on any FAT or FAT32 filesystem in a \LINUX directory...
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File system API (redirect from Filesystem interface)
has file system APIs for NTFS and several FAT file systems. Linux systems can include APIs for ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, and Btrfs to name a few. Some early...
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SYSLINUX (category Linux software)
eponymous SYSLINUX, used for booting from the FAT filesystem ISOLINUX, used for booting from the ISO 9660 filesystem PXELINUX, used for booting from a network...
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High Performance File System (redirect from HPFS filesystem)
improve upon the limitations of the FAT file system. It was written by Gordon Letwin and others at Microsoft and added to OS/2 version 1.2, at that time...
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ZipSlack (category Light-weight Linux distributions)
UMSDOS filesystem under Linux, which ran on top of the FAT filesystem. The FAT filesystem was originally used by Microsoft operating systems and can be...
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partitions... Partition (DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA): primary Partition (Linux ext2 filesystem): primary Ok. Guessed primary partition table: Primary...
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Inode (section Multi-named files and hard links)
"2.7. Block and Inode Allocation Policy". kernel.org. Retrieved 21 May 2023. Vadala, Derek (2002). "6. Filesystems". Managing RAID on Linux. O'Reilly Media...
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TestDisk (section Filesystem repair)
TestDisk is a free and open-source data recovery utility that helps users recover lost partitions or repair corrupted filesystems. TestDisk can collect...
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Filename (section Reserved characters and words)
in file names, and stored the attributes separately from the file name. Around 1995, VFAT, an extension to the MS-DOS FAT filesystem, was introduced...
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Volume (computing) (section Labels and serial numbers)
disks with non-Microsoft OS partitions, such as the ext4 filesystem commonly used with Linux. Another example occurs in the Intel world with the "Extended...
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ISO 9660 (redirect from Romeo (filesystem))
0xEF. The record is expected to be a disk image containing a FAT filesystem, the filesystem being an EFI System Partition containing the usual \EFI directory...
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SSDs on Ubuntu and Other Distributions". sites.google.com. "Linux_2_6_32 - Linux Kernel Newbies". kernelnewbies.org. "JFS Filesystem can now handle trim"...
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PhotoRec (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
cluster) size. If the filesystem is not corrupted, this value can be read from the superblock (ext2/ext3/ext4) or volume boot record (FAT, NTFS). Otherwise...
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