in the Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the root directory is the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy. It can be likened to the trunk of...
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not have a parent of its own, is called the root directory. The freedesktop.org media type for directories within many Unix-like systems – including but...
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Design of the FAT file system (redirect from FAT root directory)
sectors per cluster), FATs (number of FATs × sectors per FAT), the root directory (n/a for FAT32), and hidden sectors including the boot sector: this...
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Path (computing) (redirect from Directory path)
is relative to a particular directory whereas an absolute path indicates a location relative to the system root directory, and therefore, does not depends...
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directory is called the root directory, and the equivalent of a Unix/DOS/Windows/AmigaOS root directory is referred to as the Master File Directory....
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call on Unix and Unix-like operating systems that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is...
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Hierarchical file system (section Working directory)
tree structure, or hierarchy, generally portrayed with the root at the top. The root directory is the base of the hierarchy, and is usually stored at some...
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Windows, and OS/2, the root directory is "drive:\", for example on modern systems, the root directory is usually "C:\". The directory separator is usually...
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Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (redirect from Linux directory structure)
files and directories appear under the root directory /, even if they are stored on different physical or virtual devices. Some of these directories only exist...
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reserved areas of the disk. The root directory of the disk contains the number of the first cluster of each file in that directory. The operating system can...
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traverse to the root directory, and then include the Unix password file /etc/passwd. Unix /etc/passwd is a common file used to demonstrate directory traversal...
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File system (redirect from Directory entry)
dentry is short for 'directory entry'. A dentry is nothing but a specific component in the path from the root. They (directory name or file name) provide...
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File class. The working directory cannot be changed. Home directory Root directory Directory chroot (Linux systems) Load drive (a different, but related...
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Web server (section Directory index files)
from root directory of website; lower security risks (e.g. by intercepting more easily attempts to access static resources outside the root directory of...
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ISO 9660 (section Directories and files)
characteristics and metadata, including a root directory record that indicates in which sector the root directory is located. Other fields contain metadata...
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higher. DOS 1.x does not support a BPB, but this entry for the number of root directory entries (á 32 bytes) corresponds with BPB offset 0x06 under DOS 2.0...
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the OS2BIO.COM file as used by Microsoft.) The file is located in the root directory of the bootable FAT-formatted drive/partition (typically C:\) and typically...
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example, the boot file had to be located at a fixed position in the root directory of the file system and stored within consecutive sectors, conditions...
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Originally, the favicon was a file called favicon.ico placed in the root directory of a website. It was used in Internet Explorer's favorites (bookmarks)...
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would locate and store the contents of the first two entries in the root directory at 0000h:0500h and if they happen to reflect the correct boot files...
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by CERN root, a name for the superuser account in some operating systems Root directory, the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy Root node, the...
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formatted NTFS. A directory must exist at the root path. (As of Windows Vista, it can be any subdirectory in a volume) That directory must be empty. By...
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issues creating files or folders in the root directory, since FAT12 and FAT16 only allocate space for 512 root directory entries on hard disks. Since long filenames...
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uses a single common root directory for all contents in the container. All (non-remote) resources for publications are in the directory tree headed by the...
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on DOS-type operating systems. It is a plain-text batch file in the root directory of the boot device. The name of the file is an abbreviation of "automatic...
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the root directory's index, but the Win32 interface filters them out. In NT 4.0, the command line dir command would list the metafiles in the root directory...
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the following form: \root\FQDN\path-to\file.ext[OR]directory, where /root/ is the root directory, the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy, and,...
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be discovered and used by these component, it must be located in the root directory of a volume. As Windows has a case-insensitive view of filenames, the...
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Reserved logical sectors 0x010 0x05 BYTE Number of FATs 0x011 0x06 WORD Root directory entries 0x013 0x08 WORD Total logical sectors 0x015 0x0A BYTE Media...
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