File System

The engine that an operating system or program uses to organize and kept track of files. More specifically, the logical structures and software routines used to control access to the storage on a hard disc system and the overall structure in which the files are named, stored, and organized. The file system plays a critical role in computer forensics because the file system determines the logical structure of the hard drive, including its cluster size. The file system also determines what happens to data wh

An operating system makes it possible to use space on a computer's disk drives by imposing a structured file system on the disk storage. Each file system has its own conventions for the way in which files are named, folders and directories are structured, and large files are split into smaller pieces, for instance. It is not usually possible to transfer data directly from the file system of one operating system to that of a different operating system, because their conventions are likely to be incompatible.