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UnixWare file system
The Boot File System (named BFS on Linux, but BFS also refers to the Be File System) was used on UnixWare to store files necessary to its boot process
Boot_File_System
Native file system of the BeOS operating system
File System (BFS) is the native file system for the BeOS. In the Linux kernel, it is referred to as "BeFS" to avoid confusion with Boot File System.
Be_File_System
Partition used by Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
booted, UEFI firmware loads files stored on the ESP to start operating systems and various utilities. An ESP contains the boot loaders or kernel images of
EFI_system_partition
Type of decentralized filesystem
A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering
Clustered_file_system
Process of starting a computer
Legacy boot via CSM) does not rely on boot sectors, UEFI system loads the boot loader (EFI application file in USB disk or in the EFI System Partition)
Booting
Computer file system architecture design
The FAT file system is a file system used on MS-DOS and Windows 9x family of operating systems. It continues to be used on mobile devices and embedded
Design_of_the_FAT_file_system
Type of computer file
are in the System suitcase. In Unix-like systems the system files are located in the folder / or under folders such as /boot (Linux), /System/Library (macOS)
System_file
Boot loader used in Windows NT-based products
Windows. The boot sector or UEFI loads the Windows Boot Manager (a file named BOOTMGR on either the system or the boot partition), accesses the Boot Configuration
Windows_Boot_Manager
Interface to device driver that appears in filesystem
systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file.
Device_file
Syllable. Also called AFS. BFS – the Boot File System used on System V release 4.0 and UnixWare. BFS – the Be File System used on BeOS, occasionally misnamed
List_of_file_systems
File system designed to run on flash memory
file system is a file system designed for storing files on flash memory–based storage devices. While flash file systems are closely related to file systems
Flash_file_system
Computer filing system
In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access. A local file system is a capability of
File_system
Proprietary file system developed by Microsoft
NT File System (NTFS) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft in the 1990s. It was developed to overcome scalability, security and
NTFS
File system from DragonFly BSD
HAMMER is a high-availability 64-bit file system developed by Matthew Dillon for DragonFly BSD using B+ trees. Its major features include infinite NFS-exportable
HAMMER_(file_system)
Act of installing multiple operating systems on a single computer
Multi-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a single computer, and being able to choose which one to boot. The term dual-booting refers
Multi-booting
Storage area in computer file system
storage reserved for a file in a file system, represented as a range of block numbers, or tracks on count key data devices. A file can consist of zero or
Extent_(file_systems)
Table inside a master boot record
in the partition table inside a master boot record (MBR) is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special
Partition_type
Boot sector of non-partitioned media in PC systems
A volume boot record (VBR) (also known as a volume boot sector, a partition boot record or a partition boot sector) is a type of boot sector introduced
Volume_boot_record
Boot loader for Microsoft Windows
operating system given the appropriate boot sector in a file. NTLDR requires, at a minimum, the following three (or four) files to be on the system volume:
NTLDR
First sector of partitioned PC computer disk
fatally break compatibility with existing boot loaders, most MBR-compliant operating systems and associated system tools, and may cause serious data corruption
Master_boot_record
File system for CD-R and CD-ROM optical discs
ISO 9660 (also known as ECMA-119) is a file system for optical disc media. The file system is an international standard available from the International
ISO_9660
Filesystem API
appears in the CONFIG.SYS file, so the first IFS statement must be the boot's filesystem for the system to be able to boot. The helpers are 16-bit (for
Installable_File_System
Log-structured file system for flash memory devices
Das U-Boot, Open Firmware, the eCos RTOS, the RTEMS RTOS, and the RedBoot. Most prominent usage of the JFFS2 comes from OpenWrt. At least three file systems
JFFS2
Temporary root file system loaded during boot of Linux
root file system at boot time, or for that matter, deducing where or what the root file system is. To further complicate matters, the root file system may
Initial_ramdisk
Copy-on-write file system developed by Apple
Apple File System (APFS) is a proprietary file system developed and deployed by Apple Inc. for macOS Sierra (10.12.4) and later, iOS 10.3, tvOS 10.2,
Apple_File_System
Native file system of the Minix operating system
commercial-grade file system. As of 1994, the MINIX file system was "scarcely in use" among Linux users. A MINIX file system has six components: The Boot Block,
MINIX_file_system
Very basic transfer protocol over UDP
the early stages of nodes booting on a local area network when the operating system or firmware images are stored on a file server. TFTP was first standardized
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
Trivial_File_Transfer_Protocol
Boot loader package
on appropriate file systems, but the concept of a file system is unknown to the BIOS. Thus, in BIOS-based systems, the duty of a boot loader is to access
GNU_GRUB
Software responsible for starting the computer
spelled as boot loader or called bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer and booting an operating system. If it
Bootloader
Distributed file system protocol
Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer
Network_File_System
Technical specification for firmware architecture
BOOT\BOOT<MACHINE_TYPE_SHORT_NAME>.EFI; for example, the file path to the OS loader on an x86-64 system is \efi\boot\bootx64.efi, and \efi\boot\bootaa64
UEFI
Steganographic file systems are a kind of file system first proposed by Ross Anderson, Roger Needham, and Adi Shamir. Their paper proposed two main methods
Steganographic_file_system
Boot loader developed by Apple
size to 1 MB and was called BootROM, and the remainder of the ROM was moved to the file Mac OS ROM in the Mac OS System Folder, stored on the hard drive
BootX_(Apple)
Proprietary file system by Apple
Hierarchical File System (HFS) is a proprietary file system developed by Apple Inc. for use in computer systems running Mac OS. Originally designed for
Hierarchical File System (Apple)
Hierarchical_File_System_(Apple)
Logging (WAPBL) provides meta data journaling for file systems in conjunction with Fast File System (FFS) to accomplish rapid filesystem consistency after
Write Ahead Physical Block Logging
Write_Ahead_Physical_Block_Logging
Built-in macOS software to natively install Microsoft Windows on a Mac
Boot Camp is a multi-boot feature supported by Apple for their macOS operating system to assist users in installing, managing, and booting into Microsoft
Boot_Camp_(software)
Computer science concept
such as Das U-Boot from NAND flash memory, and that boot process does not use a dedicated EEPROM chip. XIP places requirements on file systems that are often
Execute_in_place
File system used by MS-DOS and Windows 9x
File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default file system for the DOS and Windows 9x operating systems
File_Allocation_Table
Journaling file system developed by Apple
Extended) is a journaling file system developed by Apple Inc. It replaced the Hierarchical File System (HFS) as the primary file system of Apple computers with
HFS_Plus
System configuration file for disk partitions
larger file system structure. The fstab file is read by the mount command, which happens automatically at boot time to determine the overall file system structure
Fstab
Specifies initial commands run under DOS-type operating systems
AUTOEXEC.BAT is a system file that was originally on DOS-type operating systems. It is a plain-text batch file in the root directory of the boot device. The
AUTOEXEC.BAT
Multi-stage initialisation process of operating system
Linux booting process depends very much on the computer architecture, those architectures share similar stages and software components, including system startup
Booting_process_of_Linux
Computer configuration file to map hostnames to IP addresses
The computer file hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses. It is a plain text file. Originally a file named HOSTS.TXT was
Hosts_(file)
Linux distribution
version 0.4.0 in 2007. If a PXE boot requires HTTP or TFTP, at least 1GB of memory will be needed for loading a required file for those into memory. However
SystemRescue
File system used by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems
The Unix file system (UFS) is a family of file systems supported by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is a distant descendant of the original
Unix_File_System
Open-source, primary boot the device's operating system kernel
device tree, etc., by pathname. U-Boot includes support for these filesystems: btrfs CBFS (coreboot file system) Cramfs ext2 ext3 ext4 F2FS FAT FDOS
Das_U-Boot
Sector of persistent data storage device
(EFI application file in USB disk or in the EFI system partition) directly. Additionally, the UEFI specification also contains "secure boot", which basically
Boot_sector
operating system and file system. Some older file systems, such as File Allocation Table (FAT), limited an extension to 3 characters, but modern systems do not
List_of_file_formats
A System Deployment Image (SDI) is a file format used primarily with Microsoft products to contain an arbitrary disk image, including boot sector information
System_Deployment_Image
Peer-to-peer web-based torrent client
maintaining complexity. Comparison of BitTorrent clients InterPlanetary File System List of video hosting services DailyMotion Vidme Vimeo YouTube YouTube
WebTorrent
Computer operating system
Geiselbrecht. Many features have been implemented, including a virtual file system (VFS) layer and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support.[citation needed]
Haiku_(operating_system)
Family of operating systems for IBM PC compatibles
and executed. The startup batch file AUTOEXEC.BAT is then run by the shell. The DOS system files loaded by the boot sector must be contiguous and be
DOS
Standard for booting from a server
boot server responds supplying the boot file and boot image, and any other information needed to download and execute the selected operating system.
Preboot_Execution_Environment
Windows system file utility
system files. Under Windows Vista, sfc.exe can be used to check specific folder paths, including the Windows folder and the boot folder. Windows File
System_File_Checker
System configuration file for DOS and OS/2
AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Even though loading CONFIG.SYS is part of a normal bootup process, the system can boot if the file is missing or corrupt. A system probably
CONFIG.SYS
Computer data storage partitioning standard
Linux distributions can boot from GPT partitions on systems with either the BIOS or the EFI firmware interface. The Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning
GUID_Partition_Table
Error screen displayed after a fatal system error on a computer
to resolve this problem is to boot into another device and then uncompress the files from it to make the system bootable again. In late 2009, several new
Black_screen_of_death
Parallel distributed file system
distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. The name Lustre is a portmanteau word derived from Linux and cluster. Lustre file system
Lustre_(file_system)
Filename extension
the system files from one drive to another, allowing the second drive to be bootable. MSDOS.SYS is located in the root directory of the bootable drive/partition
Windows_System_File
Executable file containing the Linux kernel
File Format (COFF). The vmlinux file might be required for kernel debugging, symbol table generation or other operations, but must be made bootable before
Vmlinux
Directory in Unix-like operating systems
Unix-like operating systems, a boot folder is the directory which holds files used in booting the operating system, typically /boot. The usage is standardized
Boot_folder
File system from DragonFly BSD
file system was said to be not ready for use. On October 16, 2017, DragonFly 5.0 was released with bootable support for HAMMER2, though file-system status
HAMMER2
Feature in Microsoft Windows
The Encrypting File System (EFS) on Microsoft Windows is a feature introduced in version 3.0 of NTFS that provides filesystem-level encryption. The technology
Encrypting_File_System
Flash file system
exFAT (Extensible File Allocation Table) is a file system optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and SD cards, that was introduced by Microsoft
ExFAT
Computing terms for disk partitions
The system partition and the boot partition (also known as the system volume and the boot volume) are computing terms for disk partitions of a hard disk
System partition and boot partition
System_partition_and_boot_partition
Default file system used in various operating systems. List of file systems Comparison of file systems List of partition IDs (MBR) Master Boot Record (MBR)
List_of_default_file_systems
Process by which the Microsoft Windows of operating system family initializes
the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory. Since Windows Vista, once all the boot and
Booting_process_of_Windows
Open-source implementation of ZFS file system
implementation of the ZFS file system and volume manager initially developed by Sun Microsystems for the Solaris operating system, and is now maintained
OpenZFS
USB drive with a full bootable operating system
A live USB or bootable USB is a portable USB-attached external data storage device containing a full operating system that can be booted from. The term
Live_USB
general and technical information for a number of computer file systems. All widely used file systems record a last modified time stamp (also known as "mtime")
Comparison_of_file_systems
Creation of accessible areas on secondary storage device
partition can be formatted with a file system or as a swap partition. Multiple partitions allow directories such as /boot, /tmp, /usr, /var, or /home to
Disk_partitioning
Filesystem of OpenVMS and RSX-11 operating systems
the boot device (system disk) may have the physical name $3$DKA100, but it is generally referred to by the logical name SYS$SYSDEVICE. File systems on
Files-11
File system used on Amiga computers
The Amiga Fast File System (abbreviated AFFS, or more commonly historically as FFS) is a file system used on the Amiga personal computer from the computer-manufacturer
Amiga_Fast_File_System
Complete, bootable computer installation that runs directly from a CD-ROM
DVD, live disc, or live operating system) is a complete bootable computer installation including operating system which runs directly from a CD-ROM or
Live_CD
Live USB bootloader
is a partially open-source utility used for creating bootable USB media storage devices with files such as .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), and .efi. Once Ventoy
Ventoy
Distributed file system
Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS, not to be confused with the GFS Linux file system) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google to
Google_File_System
Topics referred to by the same term
programming Be File System, the native file system for the Be Operating System Best-first search, a path finding algorithm Boot File System, a file system used
BFS
Data security technology
encrypted, barring the master boot record (MBR), or similar area of a bootable disk, with code that starts the operating system loading sequence. Some hardware-based
Disk_encryption
Classic Mac OS directory for system software
and preferences. Note: On macOS, files in /Library are not loaded at boot time when booting into Safe Mode. The System Folder is normally located directly
System_folder
Archive file of an optical disc
collection of files by optical disc authoring software, or from a different disk image file by means of conversion. Software distributed on bootable discs is
Optical_disc_image
Boot for Android devices
The booting process of Android devices starts at the power-on of the SoC (system on a chip) and ends at the visibility of the home screen, or special modes
Booting process of Android devices
Booting_process_of_Android_devices
Means of compromising computer security by restarting the computer
cold boot attack by cold-booting the machine and booting a lightweight operating system from a removable disk to dump the contents of pre-boot physical
Cold_boot_attack
Approach to maintaining file system
Soft updates is an approach to maintaining file system metadata integrity in the event of a crash or power outage. Soft updates work by tracking and enforcing
Soft_updates
Process of booting a computer from a network
option to boot from the network in their BIOS/UEFI via the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE). Post-1998 PowerPC (G3 – G5) Mac systems can also boot from
Network_booting
Partition used by GNU GRUB to boot GPT partition on BIOS
loading an operating system kernel from a file system. When used, the BIOS boot partition contains the second stage of the boot loader program, such as
BIOS_boot_partition
Different bootloaders
"Managing EFI Boot Loaders for Linux: Using gummiboot", 5 November 2012. Larabel, Michael (2025-02-17). "Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support"
Comparison_of_bootloaders
Apple disk encryption software
loaded from a separate non-encrypted boot volume (partition/slice type Apple_Boot). The original version of FileVault was added in Mac OS X Panther to
FileVault
Grouping of software code
in the system for automatically launching software stored on floppy disk on Acorn's earlier 8-bit micros such as the BBC Micro (the !BOOT file). Bundling
Application_directory
Software needed to operate motherboards
In embedded systems, a board support package (BSP) is the layer of software containing hardware-specific routines, such as boot loaders, device drivers
Board_support_package
File system for the Linux kernel
ext2 filesystems have a maximum file size of 2 TiB. ext2 is still recommended over journaling file systems on bootable USB flash drives and other solid-state
Ext2
Filesystem in Unix-like operating systems
memory. Typically, it is mapped to a mount point named /proc at boot time. The proc file system acts as an interface to internal data structures about running
Procfs
System file (DOS BIOS) in PC DOS and DR-DOS
optional pre-loadable system components (like for disk compression or security), displays boot menus, processes configuration files (like CONFIG.SYS) and
IBMBIO.COM
Software to automate the Linux boot process
Linux boot process. The tool named dracut is used to create a Linux boot image (initramfs) by copying tools and files from an installed system and combining
Dracut_(software)
Computer file system
The Disc Filing System (DFS) is a computer file system developed by Acorn Computers, initially as an add-on to the Eurocard-based Acorn System 2. In 1981
Disc_Filing_System
Flash memory file system
File System) is a flash file system initially developed by Samsung Electronics for the Linux kernel. The motive for F2FS was to build a file system that
F2FS
UEFI malware
BootKitty is a bootkit ELF malware that hijacks the UEFI on Linux systems by using a malicious EFI booter and is the first ever bootkit for Linux systems
BootKitty
System tool for checking the consistency of a file system
The system utility fsck (file system check) is a tool for checking the consistency of a file system in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux
Fsck
UEFI boot manager
systems using the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The boot loader automatically detected bootable images (including operating systems and
Systemd-boot
Legacy format
combine kernel, file system and various boot parameters, such as location of remote file system or server IP address, into one bootable file. The mknbi utilities
Network_Bootable_Image
Numeric value with an unclear meaning
In computer programming, a magic number or file signature is a numeric literal in source code that has a special, particular meaning that is less than
Magic_number_(programming)
BOOT FILE-SYSTEM
BOOT FILE-SYSTEM
Male
Spanish
Spanish form of Latin Theophilus, TEÓFILO means "friend of God."
Male
Scottish
Scottish surname transferred to forename use, FIFE means "from Fife," a place said to have gotten its name from the legendary Pictish hero Fib.
Surname or Lastname
English (Devon)
English (Devon) : variant spelling of Pyle.French : of uncertain origin: perhaps from Old French pile ‘trough’, a topographic name for someone who lived in a hollow, or alternatively a habitational name from any of the minor places named with this word.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly West Country)
English (chiefly West Country) : from Middle English bolt ‘bolt’, ‘bar’ (Old English bolt ‘arrow’). In part this may have originated as a nickname or byname for a short but powerfully built person, in part as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of bolts.Danish : variant of Boldt.Variant of Bold.German : from a short form of the personal names Baldwin or Reinbold.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of boots, from Middle English, Old French bote (of unknown origin).Dutch and North German : metonymic occupational name for a boatman, from Dutch boot ‘boat’.
Female
French
French form of Latin Cæcilia, CÉCILE means "blind."Â
Boy/Male
English
House
Male
French
French form of Latin Æmilius, ÉMILE means "rival."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle English rote ‘glad’ (Old English rÅt).English : metonymic occupational name for a player on the rote, an early medieval stringed instrument (Middle English, Old French rote, of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth).Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a retting place (Dutch root, a derivative of ro(o)ten ‘to ret’, akin to modern English rot), a place where flax is soaked in tubs of water until the stems rot to release the linen fibers.
Surname or Lastname
English (East Anglia and Essex)
English (East Anglia and Essex) : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a maker or user of files, from an agent derivative of Middle English file ‘file’.English : occupational name for a spinner, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French fil ‘thread’ (Latin filum).English : Americanized spelling of German Feiler, cognate of 1.
Male
English
Middle English name of uncertain origin, but commonly associated with Latin Milo, MILE means "soldier."Â Compare with another form of Mile.
Female
Spanish
Feminine form of Spanish Teófilo, TEÓFILA means "God's friend."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Boot.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably from an Old English personal name of uncertain origin; perhaps a cognate of Bothe or akin to Butt. However, forms such as Walter le Botte (Oxfordshire 1279) seem to point to a nickname or occupational name, perhaps from Old French bot ‘butt’, ‘cask’, or bot ‘toad’. Compare Bottrell.South German : occupational name for a messenger, from Middle High German bote ‘messenger’, ‘emissary’.Danish : according to Søndergaard, from Dutch bot, both ‘flounder’ (the fish).
Male
Irish
Variant spelling of Irish Mil, possibly MILE means "soldier." Compare with another form of Mile.
Male
Irish
Irish name derived from the word bile, BILE means "sacred tree."Â In mythology, this is the name of a god of healing and light.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Foote.
Girl/Female
Hindu
From the Nile
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained. Compare Boyett.
BOOT FILE-SYSTEM
BOOT FILE-SYSTEM
Girl/Female
Tamil
Fruit
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Alchemy
Boy/Male
Teutonic American German
warrior.
Girl/Female
Muslim American Arabic English Gaelic
Jewel. Amber stone.
Boy/Male
Hindu
The Moon
Girl/Female
Portuguese
My God is bountiful;God of plenty.
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
To do something which others cannot do; a miracle; inimitability
Girl/Female
Assamese, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythological, Oriya, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Traditional
Evening; Precious Mind; Twilight; Dusk; Perfection Beatifull; Evening Time
Boy/Male
Tamil
Srinivasu | à®·à¯à®°à¯€Â நீவாஸà¯Â
Paramatmudu
Girl/Female
English American
Medieval English form of the Irish Caitlin. Pure.
BOOT FILE-SYSTEM
BOOT FILE-SYSTEM
BOOT FILE-SYSTEM
BOOT FILE-SYSTEM
BOOT FILE-SYSTEM
v. t.
To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
v. t.
To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
v. t.
To smooth or polish as with a file.
v. i.
To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
v. t.
To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
superl.
Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.
n.
A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.
n.
An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.
v. t.
To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.
n.
See Bort.
n.
Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.
imp. & p. p.
of File
v. t.
To put boots on, esp. for riding.
v. t.
To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
v. i.
To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b).
n.
Booty; spoil.
v. t.
To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.
v. t.
To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
v. i.
To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.
n.
One who works with a file.