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Disk file systems

  • BFS - the Be File System used on BeOS
  • DFS , ADFS - Acorn filing systems.
  • EFS - Encrypted filesystem, An extension of NTFS
  • EFS (IRIX) - an older block filing system under IRIX.
  • EXT2 - Extended filesystem 2, provided on Linux systems
  • EXT3 - Extended filesystem 3, provided on Linux systems, (ext2+journalling)
  • FAT - Used on DOS and Microsoft Windows, 12 and 16 bit table depths
  • FAT32 - FAT with 32 bit table depth
  • FFS - Fast File System, used on older *BSD systems
  • HFS - Hierarchal Filesystem, Used on older Mac OS systems
  • HFS+ - Hierarchal Filesystem+, Used on newer Mac OS systems
  • HPFS - High Performance Filesystem, used on OS/2
  • ISO 9660 - Used on CD and DVD-ROM discs (Rock Ridge and Joliet are extensions to this)
  • JFS - Journaling Filesystem, provided in Linux, OS/2, and AIX
  • kfs
  • LFS - Log-structured filesystem
  • Minix - Used on Minix systems
  • NTFS - Used on Windows NT based systems
  • OFS
  • ReiserFS - Filesystem which uses journaling
  • Reiser4 - Filesystem which uses journaling, newest version of ReiserFS
  • UDF - Packet based filesystem for WORM/RW media such as CD-RW and DVD.
  • UFS - Unix Filesystem, used on older BSD systems
  • UFS2 - Unix Filesystem, used on newer BSD systems
  • UMSDOS - FAT filesystem extended to store permissions and metadata, used for Linux.
  • XFS - Used on IRIX systems


Network file systems


Special purpose file systems