Thompson in the first experimental version of Unix, dated 1969. As in other operating systems, the filesystem provides information storage and retrieval...

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is a reference describing the conventions used for the layout of Unix-like systems. It has been made popular by...

Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a software interface for Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems that lets non-privileged users create their own...

operating systems. It is a distant descendant of the original filesystem used by Version 7 Unix. A UFS volume is composed of the following parts: A few blocks...

the original FAT filesystem format, and in the provision of Unix file semantics that do not exist as standard in the FAT filesystem format such as file...

directory is located; it is the filesystem on top of which all other file systems are mounted as the system boots up. Unix abstracts the nature of this tree...

close(). For a Unix domain socket, the socket's address is a /path/filename identifier. The server will create /path/filename on the filesystem to act as a...

filesystems. GNU df includes -T as well, listing filesystem type information, but the GNU df shows the sizes in 1K blocks by default. The Single Unix...

used to bridge the differences in Windows, classic Mac OS/macOS and Unix filesystems, so that applications can access files on local file systems of those...

1970, the Unix epoch. For example, at midnight on January 1 2010, Unix time was 1262304000. Unix time originated as the system time of Unix operating...

ext3, and ext4. It has metadata structure inspired by traditional Unix filesystem principles, and was designed by Rémy Card to overcome certain limitations...

The proc filesystem (procfs) is a special filesystem in Unix-like operating systems that presents information about processes and other system information...

InfiniBand. There are different architectural approaches to a shared-disk filesystem. Some distribute file information across all the servers in a cluster...

Unix systems operating on the same CPU architecture. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard was created to provide a reference directory layout for Unix-like...

mv is a Unix command that moves one or more files or directories from one place to another. If both filenames are on the same filesystem, this results...

the functions which inodes fulfill in a typical Unix filesystem. In NTFS, an entity in the filesystem fundamentally exists as: a record stored in the...

applications List of Unix daemons List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems Unix philosophy util-linux The Wikibook Guide to UNIX has a page...

compatibility at the operating system level. It occurs when a filename on a filesystem appears in a form incompatible with the operating system accessing it...

permissions. All files in a typical Unix filesystem have permissions set enabling different access to a file. Unix permissions permit different users access...

19 January 2038. The problem exists in systems which measure Unix time—the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970)—and store...

the development of the ext2 filesystem addressing the discussed lack of block storage. Norman, D. A. The Trouble with Unix: The User Interface is Horrid...

the root directory of a Unix system. This directory was originally considered to be root's home directory, but the UNIX Filesystem Hierarchy Standard now...

du (abbreviated from disk usage) is a standard Unix program used to estimate file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file...

move to any given directory. Consider the following subsection of a Unix filesystem, which shows a user's home directory (represented as ~) with a file...

[Usenet; common] Fucking, in the expletive sense (it refers to the Unix filesystem-repair command fsck(1), of which it can be said that if you have to...

system calls in the st_nlink field of struct stat. To prevent loops in the filesystem, and to keep the interpretation of the ".." file (parent directory) consistent...

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...

Yggdrasil is compliant with the Unix Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Yggdrasil announced their ‘bootable Linux/GNU/X-based UNIX(R) clone for PC compatibles’...

From release V5.0 Tru64 UNIX offered a clustering facility named TruCluster Server. TruCluster utilised a cluster-wide filesystem visible to each cluster...

rm (short for remove) is a basic command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to remove objects such as computer files, directories and symbolic...