Principles of Operating Systems, CIS332, Fall 1996, Professor Franz Kurfess, Term Project


Unix File System

by Sheryl Chuang

O Introduction

O Files

O Directories

  1. Directory Structure
  2. File Names and Paths
  3. Extensions and Suffixes
  4. System Directory Structure

O Working with File Structure

  1. Changing Directories/Keeping Track of Directories
  2. Directory Listings
  3. Moving and Removing Files
  4. File Access Permissions/Changing Permissions

O Physical File Structure

  1. Inodes and File Subsystem
  2. Superblocks
  3. Network File System
  4. File System
  5. Pipes

O Mounting and Unmounting File Systems

  1. Mount
  2. Unmount

O References