Summary
A file system is a logical collection of files and directories contained in a partition. It can be treated as a single entity when making it available for use (mounting), checking, and repairing. The three categories of file systems are disk-based, memory-based, and network-based. Hard disks are of type UFS, CD-ROMs are HSFS, DVDs are UDF, and floppy disks are PCFS.
Files can be regular, directory, link, block special, character special, door, FIFO, or socket.
Links can be hard, which means they are used within the same file system, or soft (symbolic), which means they can be used across file systems.
Pseudo-file systems are memory-based file systems and provide faster access to the data stored in them. The commonly seen pseudo-file systems ...
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