14. Using File Systems

Question 1

What does Paritioning mean?

Answer 1

Dividing into logically separate areas

Question 2

What is the primary hard drive’s active/system partition?

Answer 2

partition used to boot device

In Windows, the system partition is usually hidden from File Explorer & is not allocated a drive letter

Question 3

Windows Drives

What drive letter is usually allocted to the boot partition?

The boot partition is the partition containing the OS files

Answer 3

C

Question 4

2 file systems supported by Windows?

Answer 4

• FAT
• NTFS

Question 5

Meaning of FAT?

Answer 5

File Allocation Table

Question 6

Meaning of NTFS?

Answer 6

New Technology File System

Question 7

File Systems

What bit version is usually used for FAT in Windows?

Answer 7

FAT32

Question 8

Max file size supported in FAT32?

Answer 8

4GB

Question 9

Max partition size in FAT32?

Answer 9

32GB

Question 10

What is FAT32 mainly used for?

Answer 10

Formatting most removable drives/disks

It provides the best compatibility between different types of devices

Question 11

Max partition size in NTFS?

Answer 11

2TB

Question 12

One great advantage NTFS has over FAT32?

Answer 12

More stable & secure

It allows for file-level security permissions, compression, & encryption

Question 13

What file system do most Linux distros use?

Answer 13

ext4

Question 14

What file system Apple computers use?

Answer 14

HFS+ or APFS

macOS High Sierra (2017) introduced APFS as the default file system

Question 15

Which file systems supports Compression?

Answer 15

• NTFS
• HFS+

Question 16

Which file systems support Encryption?

Answer 16

• NTFS
• HFS+
• ext4

Question 17

Which file systems support Permissions?

Permissions = The file system’s Access Control List (ACL) manages user permissions for files and folders, specifying read, write, and control access.

Answer 17

• NTFS
• HFS+
• ext4

Question 18

Which file systems support Journaling?

Journaling in file systems logs changes or intended changes, aiding data recovery or restoring the system after interruptions like sudden power cuts.

Answer 18

NTFS
HFS+
ext4

Question 19

Which file systems support Limitations?

Question 20

Which file systems support Naming Rules?

Question 21

What is the root folder?

Answer 21

The first level of the folder hierarchy

The root folder is created when the drive is formatted

Question 22

How is the root folder identified?

Answer 22

By drive label & backslash

i.e. the root folder of the C: drive is C:\

Question 23

3 system folders that are created when Windows is installed?

Answer 23

• Windows (system root)
• Program Files
• Users

Question 24

Windows System Folders

Which Windows system folder contains essential components like drivers, logs, apps, etc.

Answer 24

Windows system folder

Question 25

Windows System Folders

Which Windows system folder contains installed software?

Answer 25

Program Files system folder

Question 25

Windows System Folders

Which Windows system folder stores user’s profile settings & data?

Answer 25

Users system folder

Question 26

What kind of file system is linux?

Answer 26

Unified file system

Question 27

What is a unified file system?

Answer 27

File system where everything is represented as a file

i.e. in Linux, even devices are represented in files (i.e. a hard drive attached to a SATA port would be represented like /dev/sda. There is no “drive letter” in linux.

Question 28

How to actually delete files in Windows?

Answer 28

Using Third-party “shredding” utilities

Emptying the recycling bin does not erase te data until that area of disk is overwritten by different data. Third-party utilieies can recover files that have been “deleted” in this way