Files and File Systems

File Handling

• Data
  • We write data to our hard drives in the form of data blocks
  • Block Storage - improves faster handling of data because the data isn’t stored as one long piece and can be accessed quicker
• Metadata
  • File Extension - the appended part of a filename that tells us that type of file it is in certain operating systems
• File System
  • some support large and small amounts of data
  • operate at different speeds
  • NTFS for Windows
    • Encryption
    • Faster access speeds
    • security
  • EXT 4 for Linux