Disk Management
Everything on SkillVeris tagged Disk Management — collected across the glossary, study notes, blog, and cheat sheets.
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What Is a File System?
A file system is the operating system component that organizes how data is named, stored, retrieved, and protected on persistent storage, presenting raw disk b…
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…
What are File Allocation Methods in an OS?
File allocation methods are the strategies a file system uses to map a file’s logical blocks onto physical disk blocks, and the three classic approaches are co…
What is Log Rotation and Why is it Necessary?
Log rotation is the automated process of archiving, compressing, and eventually deleting old log files on a schedule or size threshold, so a continuously growi…