Filesystems HOWTO

Martin Hinner < mhi@penguin.cz >

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Copyright
• 1.2 Credits

2. DOS FAT 12/16/32, VFAT

• 2.1 Accessing VFAT from OS/2 (VFAT-OS2)
• 2.2 Accessing FAT32 from OS/2 (FAT32.IFS)
• 2.3 Accessing FAT32 from Windows NT 4.0
• 2.4 Accessing FAT32 from Windows NT 4.0
• 2.5 Accessing Stac/Dblspaced/Drvspaced drives from Linux (DMSDOS)
• 2.6 Fsresize - FAT16/32 resizer
• 2.7 FIPS - FAT16 resizer

3. High Performance FileSystem (HPFS)

• 3.1 Accessing HPFS from DOS (iHPFS)
• 3.2 Accessing HPFS from DOS
• 3.3 Accessing HPFS from Linux
• 3.4 Accessing HPFS from Windows NT 3.5

4. New Technology FileSystem (NTFS)

• 4.1 Accessing NTFS from DOS (NTFSDOS.EXE)
• 4.2 Accessing NTFS from DOS (ntpwd)
• 4.3 Accessing NTFS from OS/2
• 4.4 Accessing NTFS from Linux
• 4.5 Accessing NTFS from FreeBSD
• 4.6 Accessing NTFS from BeOS
• 4.7 Accessing NTFS from BeOS (another)
• 4.8 Repairing NTFS using NTFSDOS Tools
• 4.9 Repairing NTFS using NTRecover
• 4.10 Repairing "fault tolerant" NTFS disks using FTEdit

5. Second extended filesystem (Ext2 fs)

• 5.1 Ext2fs transparent compression
• 5.2 Accessing Ext2 from DOS
• 5.3 Accessing Ext2 from DOS (LTools)
• 5.4 Accessing Ext2 from OS/2
• 5.5 Accessing Ext2 from Windows 95/98 (FSDEXT2)
• 5.6 Accessing Ext2 from Windows 95 (explore2fs)
• 5.7 Accessing Ext2 from Windows NT (ext2fsnt)
• 5.8 Accessing Ext2 from BeOS
• 5.9 Repairing/analyzing/creating Ext2 using E2fsprogs
• 5.10 Ext2 filesystem editor - Ext2ed
• 5.11 Ext2 undelete utilities

6. Macintosh Hierarchical Filesystem - HFS

• 6.1 Accessing HFS from Linux
• 6.2 Accessing HFS from OS/2 (HFS/2)
• 6.3 HFS utils

7. Other filesystems

• 7.1 ADFS - Acorn Disc Filing System
• 7.2 Affs - Amiga fast filesystem
• 7.3 AFS - The Acer Fast Filesystem
• 7.4 AutoFS (AIX)
• 7.5 BeFS - BeOS filesystem
• 7.6 CacheFS (AIX)
• 7.7 CrosStor filesystem
• 7.8 DTFS - Desktop filesystem
• 7.9 EAFS - The Extended Acer Fast Filesystem
• 7.10 EFS - Enhanced filesystem (Linux)
• 7.11 EFS - Extent filesystem (IRIX)
• 7.12 ExtFS - Extended filesystem (Linux)
• 7.13 FFS - BSD Fast filesystem
• 7.14 HFS - HP-UX Hi performance filesystem
• 7.15 HTFS - High throughput filesystem
• 7.16 ISO9660 - CD-ROM filesystem
• 7.17 JFS - Journaled filesystem (HP-UX, AIX, OS/2 WarpServer 5)
• 7.18 Joliet - Microsoft ISO9660 extension
• 7.19 LIF (HP-UX)
• 7.20 LFS - Linux log structured filesystem
• 7.21 MFS - Macintosh filesystem
• 7.22 Minix filesystem
• 7.23 Novell NetWare filesystem
• 7.24 NSS
• 7.25 ODS - On Disk Structure filesystem
• 7.26 QNX filesystem
• 7.27 Reiser filesystem
• 7.28 S51K - SystemV 1K
• 7.29 System V / Coherent filesystem
• 7.30 UDF - Universal Disk Format (DVD-ROM filesystem)
• 7.31 UFS
• 7.32 VxFS
• 7.33 Xenix filesystem
• 7.34 XFS - Extended filesystem (IRIX)
• 7.35 Xia FS

8. Appendix

• 8.1 Writing your own filesystem driver
• 8.2 Related documents