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Review of Filesystems

File system: Used to keep track of files and file storage on a disk

  • Without a file system, ​the operating system wouldn’t know how to organize files

For Windows, we use the NTFS file system ​Linux it’s recommended to use ext4

​Let’s say you have a USB drive that’s using an NTFS file system. ​Both Windows and Linux’s Ubuntu can read and write to the USB drive, but ​if you have an ext4 USB drive, it’ll only work on Ubuntu, and not on windows. Pasted image 20260623100430 Pasted image 20260623100503

Luckily, there are foul systems like FAT32 that support reading and ​writing data to all three major operating systems Pasted image 20260623100552FAT32 has some shortcomings though…

  • it doesn’t support files larger than four ​gigabytes
  • the size of the file system can’t be larger than 32gigabytes.

For more information about the FAT32 File System, please check out the link here