Filesystems HOWTO

Martin Hinner < mhi@penguin.cz>

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Copyright
• 1.2 Filesystems mailing-list
• 1.3 Credits
• 1.4 Filesystems accessibility map
• 1.5 Introduction to contiguous allocation filesystems
• 1.6 Introduction to linked-list allocation filesystems
• 1.7 Introduction to FAT-based filesystems
• 1.8 Introduction to Inode filesystems
• 1.9 Introduction to extent filesystems
• 1.10 Introduction to filesystems using balanced trees
• 1.11 Introduction to logging/journaling filesystems

2. Volumes

• 2.1 PC Partitions
• 2.2 Other partitions
• 2.3 Unix slices
• 2.4 Windows NT volumes
• 2.5 Linux MD
• 2.6 LVM - Logical Volume Manager
• 2.7 OS/2 LVM ?
• 2.8 Windows NT volumes
• 2.9 Novell NetWare volumes

3. DOS FAT 12/16/32, VFAT

• 3.1 Accessing FAT from IRIX
• 3.2 Accessing VFAT from OS/2 (VFAT-OS2)
• 3.3 Accessing FAT32 from OS/2 (FAT32.IFS)
• 3.4 Accessing FAT32 from Windows NT 4.0
• 3.5 Accessing FAT32 from Windows NT 4.0
• 3.6 Accessing Stac/Dblspaced/Drvspaced drives from Linux (DMSDOS)
• 3.7 Accessing Dblspaced/Drvspaced drives from Linux (thsfs)
• 3.8 Fsresize - FAT16/32 resizer
• 3.9 FIPS - FAT16 resizer

4. High Performance FileSystem (HPFS)

• 4.1 Accessing HPFS from DOS (iHPFS)
• 4.2 Accessing HPFS from DOS (hpfsdos)
• 4.3 Accessing HPFS from DOS (hpfsa)
• 4.4 Accessing HPFS from DOS (amos)
• 4.5 Accessing HPFS from Linux
• 4.6 Accessing HPFS from FreeBSD
• 4.7 Accessing HPFS from Windows NT 3.5
• 4.8 Accessing HPFS from Windows NT 4

5. New Technology FileSystem (NTFS)

• 5.1 Accessing NTFS from DOS (NTFSDOS.EXE)
• 5.2 Accessing NTFS from DOS (ntpwd)
• 5.3 Accessing NTFS from OS/2
• 5.4 Accessing NTFS from Linux
• 5.5 Accessing NTFS from FreeBSD and NetBSD
• 5.6 Accessing NTFS from BeOS
• 5.7 Accessing NTFS from BeOS (another)
• 5.8 Repairing NTFS using NTFSDOS Tools
• 5.9 Repairing NTFS using NTRecover
• 5.10 Repairing "fault tolerant" NTFS disks using FTEdit

6. Second extended filesystem (Ext2 fs)

• 6.1 E2compr - Ext2fs transparent compression
• 6.2 Accessing Ext2 from DOS (Ext2 tools)
• 6.3 Accessing Ext2 from DOS, Windows 9x/NT and other Unixes (LTools)
• 6.4 Accessing Ext2 from OS/2
• 6.5 Accessing Ext2 from Windows 95/98 (FSDEXT2)
• 6.6 Accessing Ext2 from Windows 95 (Explore2fs)
• 6.7 Accessing Ext2 from Windows NT (ext2fsnt)
• 6.8 Accessing Ext2 from BeOS
• 6.9 Accessing Ext2 from MacOS (MountX)
• 6.10 Accessing Ext2 from MiNT
• 6.11 Ext2fs defrag
• 6.12 Ext2fs resize
• 6.13 Ext2end
• 6.14 Repairing/analyzing/creating Ext2 using E2fsprogs
• 6.15 Ext2 filesystem editor - Ext2ed
• 6.16 Linux filesystem editor - lde
• 6.17 Ext2 undelete utilities

7. Macintosh Hierarchical Filesystem - HFS

• 7.1 Accessing HFS from Linux
• 7.2 Accessing HFS from OS/2 (HFS/2)
• 7.3 Accessing HFS from Windows 95/98/NT (HFV Explorer)
• 7.4 Accessing HFS from DOS (MAC-ETTE)
• 7.5 HFS utils
• 7.6 MacFS: A Portable Macintosh File System Library

8. ISO 9660 - CD-ROM filesystem

• 8.1 RockRidge extensions
• 8.2 Joliet extensions
• 8.3 Hybrid CD-ROMs
• 8.4 Physical formats
• 8.5 Accessing Joliet from Linux
• 8.6 Accessing Joliet from BeOS
• 8.7 Accessing Joliet from OS/2
• 8.8 Accessing Audio CD as filesystem from BeOS
• 8.9 Creating Hybrid CD-ROMs (mkhybrid)

9. Other filesystems

• 9.1 ADFS - Acorn Disc File System
• 9.2 AFFS - Amiga fast filesystem
• 9.3 AutoFS (AIX)
• 9.4 BeFS - BeOS filesystem
• 9.5 BFS - UnixWare Boot Filesystem
• 9.6 CacheFS (AIX)
• 9.7 CrosStor filesystem
• 9.8 DTFS - Desktop filesystem
• 9.9 EFS - Enhanced filesystem (Linux)
• 9.10 EFS - Extent filesystem (IRIX)
• 9.11 ExtFS - Extended filesystem (Linux)
• 9.12 FFS - BSD Fast filesystem
• 9.13 GPFS - General Parallel Filesystem
• 9.14 HFS - HP-UX Hi performance filesystem
• 9.15 HTFS - High throughput filesystem
• 9.16 JFS - Journaled filesystem (HP-UX, AIX, OS/2 WarpServer 5)
• 9.17 LFS - Linux log structured filesystem
• 9.18 MFS - Macintosh filesystem
• 9.19 Minix filesystem
• 9.20 NWFS - Novell NetWare filesystem
• 9.21 NSS - Novell Storage Services
• 9.22 ODS - On Disk Structure filesystem
• 9.23 QNX filesystem
• 9.24 Reiser filesystem
• 9.25 RFS (CD-ROM Filesystem)
• 9.26 RomFS - Rom filesystem
• 9.27 SFS - Secure filesystem
• 9.28 Spiralog filesystem (OpenVMS)
• 9.29 System V and derived filesystems
• 9.30 Text - (Philips' CD-ROM Filesystem)
• 9.31 UDF - Universal Disk Format (DVD-ROM filesystem)
• 9.32 UFS
• 9.33 VxFS - Veritas filesystem (HP-UX, SCO UnixWare)
• 9.34 XFS - Extended filesystem (IRIX)
• 9.35 Xia FS

10. Appendix

• 10.1 Network filesystems
• 10.2 Writing your own filesystem driver
• 10.3 Related documents