Digital Forensics

Humans are used to working with decimal numbers, but computers uses machine language which is in binary, meaning that there are only 0s and 1s. Each 0 or 1 is called a bit, and bits are organized into groups of 8 called bytes. In the context of computers, we can define other types of number […]

Linux is a Unix-like operating system which was implemented first as an extension to the Minix operating system. However, the restrictions in the design of the Minix filesystem were too limiting and a new filesystem, called the Extended File System or ext, was implemented in April 1992. In 1993, it was superseded by both the […]

A file system gives an operating system a road map to data on a disk. The type of file system an operating system uses will determine how data is stored on the disk. As Windows operating system is one of the most popular OS, let us take a look at its file systems.  Terminology When […]

As already stated in the previous article, the file system consists of two distinct parts: a collection of files, each storing related data, and a directory structure, which organises and provides information about all the files in the system.  Now, a disk or a partition containing a file system is generally known as a volume […]

As discussed previously, files may contain all different types of data such as images, videos, documents, text files or spreadsheets. Even applications are files. So there is a question of how the Operating System recognises a chunk of data as an image or a text file. File Types The answer is that each file has […]

The file system is one of the most visible aspect of an operating system, which provides the mechanism for storage as well as access to both data and programs of the operating system. The file system consists of two distinct parts: a collection of files, each storing related data, and a directory structure, which organizes […]