Definition: File System


A system for organising and cataloguing files on a data storage media, comparable to the index in a book. Examples: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, S51K, ext2, AFS.




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Master Boot Record (MBR)

The first sector of a hard disk in a PC. It contains the Partition Table.

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