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Recommended: Outline the role of the operating system and identify the features of several popular operating systems

Introduction
Data is the most important and critical factor in a computer system. In order to properly manage the data, computer systems need a method. This method is call file system. File system is used to manage data storing and retrieving in a computer. Without a file system, data inside a computer is just a large chunk of data without a proper starting and ending points. By using the file system, data is separated into individual pieces and give each piece a name to identify them separately. This piece of data is called file and structure and logic rules to manage theses information is called file system. This method will help computer users to easily and quickly store and retrieve data.
There are so many different kinds of file systems and use different kinds of storage devices to store the data. Each file system type has its own structure and logic, properties, flexibility, speed etc. File systems can be different from operating system to operating system and application to application. Each operating system or application may need different characteristics in file system to manage the data. This different needs will led the researches to implement different kinds of file systems such as NTFS, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3 etc. And they make sure to secure the data integrity, which means the data present in the disk are same for every individual file system type. With these different characteristics of file system types operating systems give its users more fast and more reliable data managing ability.
This document will describe two different operating system file systems. Operating systems which are selected here Microsoft windows operating system and Linux Operating system.

Microsoft Windows File System
In order to organize the ...

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...an windows files. In Linux files can be a document or a picture like windows file system and also it will use to represent devices, device drivers, system information etc. For example your CD-ROM device is available at /dev/cdrom file and your mouse is available at /dev/mouse file. These are special files which are not equal to normal text file or a picture file.

Conclusion
Objective of this document is to give a brief idea about what is the file system and how it works with different operating systems. Managing the data in a system is the most critical part in Information Technology. In data management file system plays a major role and provide fast and reliable methods to store and retrieve data from a system. Two most commonly use operating systems were taken to illustrate the behaviors of the file system and also did a comparison to clear idea about the topic.

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