File Systems: Difference between revisions

Filesystems are the machine's way of ordering your data on readable and/or writable media. They provide a logical way to access the stuff that you have down on disk so that you can read or modify it. Which file system you use depends upon what you want to do with it. For example, Windows uses the Fat32 or NTFS filesystem. If your disk is really huge, then there's no point using Fat32 because the FAT system was designed in the days when nobody had disks as big as we do now. At the same time, there's no point using a NTFS filesystem on a tiny disk, because it was designed to work with large volumes of data - the overhead would be pointless for, say, reading a 1.44m floppy disk.