Programs: filesystems

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Mounting

fstab unix saved mounts, read at boot

Files

file information about a file

Filesystems

Permissions

unix filesystem permissions
windows filesystem permissions

Utilities

fsck unix repair filesystems
chkdsk windows repair filesystems

Operating Systems

Universal

fat32 universal, max 4G, filesize 2G
exfat universal, max 128 PetaBytes, filesize 128 PetaBytes

Unix

zfs fault-tolerant, replication, multi-volume
ceph clustered io (SAN)
xfs
btrfs
orangefs parallelized io
fuse
overlayfs merge multiple mount points into one

bsd

ufs
nullfs mount dirs in other locations

linux

ext2
ext4
bindfs mount dirs to other locations

windows

ntfs

osx

hfsplus

Specialized

Encrypted

encfs
ecryptfs
gocryptfs

Virtual

sysfs linux kernel > 2.6 introduced this filesystem for managing kernel options exposed under /sys

Image Formats

iso
bin/cue

ios

ifuse