The Boot File System (named BFS on Linux, but BFS also refers to the Be File System) was used on UnixWare to store files necessary to its boot process...

File System (BFS) is the native file system for the BeOS. In the Linux kernel, it is referred to as "BeFS" to avoid confusion with Boot File System....

UEFI firmware loads files stored on the ESP to start operating systems and various utilities. An ESP contains the boot loaders, boot managers, or kernel...

A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering...

they are in the System suitcase. And in Linux system the system files are located under folders /boot (the kernel itself), /usr/sbin (system utilities) and...

InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. By using...

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...

Syllable. Also called AFS. BFS – the Boot File System used on System V release 4.0 and UnixWare. BFS – the Be File System used on BeOS, occasionally misnamed...

Windows. The boot sector or UEFI loads the Windows Boot Manager (a file named BOOTMGR on either the system or the boot partition), accesses the Boot Configuration...

Legacy boot via CSM) does not rely on boot sectors, UEFI system loads the boot loader (EFI application file in USB disk or in the EFI System Partition)...

The FAT file system is a file system used on MS-DOS and Windows 9x family of operating systems. It continues to be used on mobile devices and embedded...

file system is a file system designed for storing files on flash memory–based storage devices. While flash file systems are closely related to file systems...

appears in the CONFIG.SYS file, so the first IFS statement must be the boot's filesystem for the system to be able to boot. The helpers are 16-bit (for...

storage reserved for a file in a file system, represented as a range of block numbers, or tracks on count key data devices. A file can consist of zero or...

ISO 9660 (also known as ECMA-119) is a file system for optical disc media. The file system is an international standard available from the International...

(8088/8086). For example, DR-DOS boot sectors are able to locate the boot file in the FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems, and load it into memory as a whole...

A volume boot record (VBR) (also known as a volume boot sector, a partition boot record or a partition boot sector) is a type of boot sector introduced...

device tree, etc., by pathname. U-Boot includes support for these filesystems: btrfs CBFS (coreboot file system) Cramfs ext2 ext3 ext4 F2FS FAT FDOS...

systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file....

Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems, the /boot/ directory holds files used in booting the operating system. The usage is standardized in the Filesystem...

Multi-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a single computer, and being able to choose which one to boot. The term dual-booting refers...

root file system at boot time, or for that matter, deducing where or what the root file system is. To further complicate matters, the root file system may...

in the partition table inside a master boot record (MBR) is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special...

exFAT (Extensible File Allocation Table) is a file system introduced by Microsoft in 2006 and optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and...

commercial-grade file system. As of 1994, the MINIX file system was "scarcely in use" among Linux users. A MINIX file system has six components: The Boot Block which...

Linux booting process depends very much on the computer architecture, those architectures share similar stages and software components, including system startup...

NT File System (NTFS) (commonly called New Technology File System) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft in the 1990s. It was...

Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer...

operating system given the appropriate boot sector in a file. NTLDR requires, at the minimum, the following two files to be on the system volume: ntldr...

Apple File System (APFS) is a proprietary file system developed and deployed by Apple Inc. for macOS Sierra (10.12.4) and later, iOS 10.3, tvOS 10.2,...