The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective From the archives: In the '90s, OS geeks adored BFS's ahead-of-its-time feature set.

A file system is a major component of the operating system (OS). Applications command the OS to input and output data, and the file system reads and writes the sectors on the storage drive.

If needed, Apple's TextEdit program can be used to modify hidden system files.

Windows includes Compact OS. Using compact.exe you can reduce the size of the operating system & run it from compressed files, similar to WIMBoot.

There several ways to find files in OS X, the most popular of which are GUI-based routines such as the Spotlight menu and the Finder search, both of which offer quick access to the system's ...

Depending on the partition scheme, these are the file systems Mac OS 10.4 supports: Mac OS Extended or HFS+ is an improved version of Apple's Hierarchical File System from the mid-1980s.

Reimer also talked about the different file systems used by NeXT and then Mac OS X. Over time, the influence of the NeXT people waned, and some of their hard-line decisions were revisited.

Apple's macOS provides a way to mount and access storage volumes used by other operating systems on your desktop. Here's how to get started.