How do computer file systems work?
Here are a few pages and references on files systems that I am filing away in this posting (sorry).
- Overview of FAT, HPFS, and NTFS File Systems
- Description of the FAT32 file system
- Detailed explanation of FAT boot sector
- Design and implementation of Ext2
- Filestystems HowTo
- NTFS Documentation from the Linux-NTFS project
- FAT32 Structure Information
- FAT16 Structure Information
- How to Read and Write to a Hard Drive