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 Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default filesystem for MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems...

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...

Transaction-Safe FAT File System (TFAT) and Transaction-Safe Extended FAT File System (TexFAT) refer to two file systems used in Microsoft products to...

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\). Design of the FAT file system File Allocation Table (FAT) File system Filename extension Long filename "Naming a File". Microsoft...

32-bit or 64-bit applications on file systems other than pre-Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5 versions of the FAT file system. Some filenames are given extensions...

File System (NTFS) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft. Starting with Windows NT 3.1, it is the default file system of the...

Performance File System) is a file system created specifically for the OS/2 operating system to improve upon the limitations of the FAT file system. It was...

drivers for file systems. When IBM and Microsoft were co-developing OS/2, they realized that the FAT file system did not offer some of the features modern...

several filesystem drivers for the File Allocation Table (FAT) filesystem format. These are commonly known by the names used in the mount command to invoke particular...

"native" file system, which does not bear any name apart from the name of the operating system itself. Disk file systems are usually block-oriented. Files in...

operating systems, rather than specialized shortened names such as .jpg, .tif, .htm, or .xht. The standard has been common with File Allocation Table (FAT) filesystems...

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 an operating...

The Encrypting File System (EFS) on Microsoft Windows is a feature introduced in version 3.0 of NTFS that provides filesystem-level encryption. The technology...

clustering, most of which do not employ a clustered file system (only direct attached storage for each node). Clustered file systems can provide features...

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

A virtual file system (VFS) or virtual filesystem switch is an abstract layer on top of a more concrete file system. The purpose of a VFS is to allow...

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file systems. Note that in addition to the below table, block capabilities...

used by the operating system. The use of fat binaries is not common in operating system software; there are several alternatives to solve the same problem...

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...

of 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...

Design rule for Camera File system (DCF) is a JEITA specification (number CP-3461) which defines a file system for digital cameras, including the directory...

computers, the older FAT-type file systems of MS-DOS and old versions of Windows are supported, in addition to the NTFS file system that is the normal file system...

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....

systems it supports. Microsoft Windows has file system APIs for NTFS and several FAT file systems. Linux systems can include APIs for ext2, ext3, ReiserFS...

FatFs is a lightweight software library for microcontrollers and embedded systems that implements FAT/exFAT file system support. Written on pure ANSI...

recovery of specific file types from FAT and exFAT (predominantly found on external devices) and ReFS file systems. Data remanence Data recovery List of data...

significantly different noting. File Allocation Table (FAT) Design of the FAT file system CP/M Plus Operating System System Guide (Second ed.). Monterey...

formatting Data recovery convert File Allocation Table Design of the FAT file system fdisk PC DOS 7.10 Format32 The directory entries get filled with...

computing, file system fragmentation, sometimes called file system aging, is the tendency of a file system to lay out the contents of files non-continuously...