Chapter 5
Files, Directories, and the File System
The logical and physical implementations of file systems are covered in this chapter. The logical view of a file system is the organizational units of files, directories, and partitions. The physical implementation is the translation from the logical view to the physical location on disk storage of the file components. File systems of both DOS/Windows and Linux are presented including the top level directories and the implementation of block indexing. The chapter concludes with a section that explores how to navigate through the file systems using command line instructions.
The learning objectives of this chapter are to
- Describe the elements of the file system from both the logical and physical ...
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