File System

What is file System? Its convention for naming files and the way they are stored in the computer

Under Discussion Extended FS (extfs) Extended 2 (ext2fs) Extended 3 (ext3fs) Swap (swap)

Extended FS (extfs)

Extended 2 (ext2fs)

Extended 3 (ext3fs)

Swap (swap)

Extended File System Original Linux File System designed and implemented on Linux by Rémy Card ( MASI), Theodore Ts'o, MIT and StephenTweedie, Redhat

Original Linux File System

designed and implemented on Linux by Rémy Card ( MASI),

Theodore Ts'o, MIT and StephenTweedie, Redhat

Extended File System 2 Extension of EXT file system Used in Linux from 1993

Extension of EXT file system

Used in Linux from 1993

Extended File System 3 Recently Developed File system An Enhanced Form of ext 2 Contains advancements like Extended Attributes, POSIX ACL (Access Control List)

Recently Developed File system

An Enhanced Form of ext 2

Contains advancements like Extended Attributes, POSIX ACL (Access Control List)

Extended File System 3 No need of Defrag as it is handled by file system itself File system Keep Track of its state and perform necessary task like disk scanning by itself. Journal keeping reduces disk scan time Flexible Block Size Selection Provides Hi-Security at both user and system level (only competitor is NTFS)

No need of Defrag as it is handled by file system itself

File system Keep Track of its state and perform necessary task like disk scanning by itself.

Journal keeping reduces disk scan time

Flexible Block Size Selection

Provides Hi-Security at both user and system level (only competitor is NTFS)

Swap Special File System Generally Hidden from normal User An Extension of System RAM Used To Keep frequently accessed data Generally size is double of RAM, but no need if you have more than 1GB of RAM. As this is a separate partition it acts as a system speed booster. (unlike windows which creates a file on the fly reducing the speed)

Special File System Generally Hidden from normal User

An Extension of System RAM

Used To Keep frequently accessed data

Generally size is double of RAM, but no need if you have more than 1GB of RAM.

As this is a separate partition it acts as a system speed booster. (unlike windows which creates a file on the fly reducing the speed)

File System Hierarchy Ext / ext2 / ext3 all file system follows a similar hierarchical structure Files System Starts with a forward Slash (/) All directories have their specific purposes.

Ext / ext2 / ext3 all file system follows a similar hierarchical structure

Files System Starts with a forward Slash (/)

All directories have their specific purposes.

File System Besides this on some new systems you might find these directories /media - replacement of /mnt

Besides this on some new systems you might find these directories

/media - replacement of /mnt