Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)

Operating Systems: Filesystems

Learn how operating systems use filesystems to structure, store, and manage data.

Why Operating Systems: Filesystems?

Continue your Operating Systems learning journey! Whether it is playing music, looking at photos, or watching a movie, computers are responsible for holding a lot of data. Learn about the filesystem, which is the data structure used by the operating system to store and retrieve that data.

Take-Away Skills

This course will cover content such as:

  • Filesystem layers and operations
  • Metadata
  • Basic filesystem manipulation

Notes on Prerequisites

We recommend that you complete Operating Systems: Process Synchronization and Memory Management before completing this course.

This course is 23 mins long.

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