Filesystem
Everything on SkillVeris tagged Filesystem — collected across the glossary, study notes, blog, and cheat sheets.
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Study Notes(2)
Navigating the Filesystem (cd, pwd, ls)
Practical mastery of moving around the Linux directory tree using cd, pwd, and ls, including absolute vs relative paths and useful ls flags for everyday work.
The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy
A tour of the standard Linux directory tree defined by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) — what lives under /etc, /var, /usr, /home, and more, and why th…
Interview Questions(5)
What is an Inode and What Does It Store?
An inode is a fixed-size metadata record that a Unix-style file system keeps for every file, storing ownership, permissions, timestamps, size, and pointers to…
What is the FAT File System and How Does It Work?
FAT (File Allocation Table) is a simple, flat file system that tracks which disk clusters belong to a file using a single shared table of linked-list-style ent…
What is NTFS and How Does It Improve on FAT?
NTFS (New Technology File System) is Windows' journaling file system that stores nearly all metadata — including tiny files themselves — as records in a Master…
What is ext4 and What Improvements Does It Bring?
ext4 is the default Linux file system that improves on ext3 by using extents instead of pure block-mapping for large files, adding delayed allocation and multi…
What is Journaling in a File System and Why Does It Matter?
Journaling is a technique where a file system writes a record of an intended metadata (and optionally data) change to a dedicated log before applying that chan…