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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><caption class="infobox-title summary">Minix file system</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_developer" class="mw-redirect" title="Software developer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Open_source_community" class="mw-redirect" title="Open source community">Open source community</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Full name</th><td class="infobox-data">MINIX file system version 3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Introduced</th><td class="infobox-data">1987<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1987</span>)</span> with <a href="Minix" title="Minix">Minix</a> 1.0</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Partition_type" title="Partition type">Partition IDs</a></th><td class="infobox-data">0x81 (<a href="Master_boot_record" title="Master boot record">MBR</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Features</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Dates recorded</th><td class="infobox-data">last metadata change, last file change, last file access</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Date resolution</th><td class="infobox-data">1s</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="File_system_permissions" class="mw-redirect" title="File system permissions">File system<br>permissions</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Transparent<br>compression</th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Filesystem-level_encryption" title="Filesystem-level encryption">Transparent<br>encryption</a></th><td class="infobox-data">No (provided at the block device level)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Other</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Supported<br><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Minix_3" title="Minix 3">Minix 3</a>, <a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="MiNT" title="MiNT">MiNT</a> and <a href="HelenOS" title="HelenOS">HelenOS</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p>The <b>Minix file system</b> is the native <a href="File_system" title="File system">file system</a> of the <a href="Minix" title="Minix">Minix</a> <a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating system</a>. It was written by <a href="Andrew_S._Tanenbaum" title="Andrew S. Tanenbaum">Andrew S. Tanenbaum</a> in the 1980s and aimed to replicate the structure of the <a href="Unix_File_System" title="Unix File System">Unix File System</a> while omitting complex features, and was intended to be a teaching aid. It largely fell out of favour among Linux users by 1994 due to the popularity of other filesystems - most notably <a href="Ext2" title="Ext2">ext2</a> - and its lack of features, including limited partition sizes and filename length limits.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<p>MINIX was written by <a href="Andrew_S._Tanenbaum" title="Andrew S. Tanenbaum">Andrew S. Tanenbaum</a> in the 1980s, as a <a href="Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a> operating system whose source code could be used freely in education. The MINIX file system was designed for use with MINIX; it copies the basic structure of the <a href="Unix_File_System" title="Unix File System">Unix File System</a> but avoids any complex features in the interest of keeping the source code clean, clear and simple, to meet the overall goal of MINIX to be a useful teaching aid.<sup id="cite_ref-TanenbaumOSBook_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TanenbaumOSBook-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>When <a href="Linus_Torvalds" title="Linus Torvalds">Linus Torvalds</a> first started writing his <a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> operating system kernel (1991), he was working on a machine running MINIX, and adopted its file system layout. This soon proved problematic, since MINIX restricted filename lengths to 14 characters (30 in later versions), it limited <a href="Disk_partitioning" title="Disk partitioning">partitions</a> to 64 megabytes,<sup id="cite_ref-Strobel_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Strobel-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the file system was designed for teaching purposes, not performance.<sup id="cite_ref-Mauerer_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mauerer-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Linux implementation of the MINIX fs was multi-threaded, whereas the MINIX implementation of the fs was single-threaded.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="Extended_file_system" title="Extended file system">extended file system</a> (ext; April 1992) was developed to replace MINIX's, but it was only with the second version of this, <a href="Ext2" title="Ext2">ext2</a>, that Linux obtained a commercial-grade file system.<sup id="cite_ref-Mauerer_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mauerer-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 1994, the MINIX file system was "scarcely in use" among Linux users.<sup id="cite_ref-Strobel_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Strobel-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design_and_implementation">Design and implementation</h2></div>

<p>A MINIX file system has six components:<sup id="cite_ref-TanenbaumOSBook_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TanenbaumOSBook-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li>The <a href="Boot_sector" title="Boot sector">Boot Block</a> which is always stored in the first block. It contains the <a href="Booting" title="Booting">boot loader</a> that loads and runs an <a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating system</a> at system startup.</li>

<li>The second block is the <b>Superblock</b> which stores data about the file system, that allows the operating system to locate and understand other file system structures. For example, the number of <i>inodes</i> and <i>zones</i>, the size of the two bitmaps and the starting block of the <i>data area</i>.</li>

<li>The <b>inode <a href="Bitmap" title="Bitmap">bitmap</a></b> is a simple <a href="Map_(computer_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Map (computer science)">map</a> of the <a href="Inode" title="Inode">inodes</a> that tracks which ones are in use and which ones are free by representing them as either a one (in use) or a zero (free).</li>

<li>The <b>zone bitmap</b> works in the same way as the <i>inode bitmap</i>, except it tracks the zones.</li>

<li>The <b>inodes</b> area. Each file or directory is represented as an inode, which records metadata including type (file, directory, block, char, pipe), IDs for user and group, three timestamps that record the date and time of last access, last modification and last status change. An inode also contains a list of addresses that point to the zones in the <i>data area</i> where the file or directory data is actually stored.</li>

<li>The <b>data area</b> is the largest component of the file system, using the majority of the space. It is where the actual file and directory data are stored.</li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_file_systems" title="List of file systems">List of file systems</a></li>

<li><a href="MINIX_3" class="mw-redirect" title="MINIX 3">MINIX 3</a></li>

<li><a href="Minix-vmd" class="mw-redirect" title="Minix-vmd">Minix-vmd</a></li></ul>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFTanenbaumAlbert_S._Woodhull2006" class="citation book cs1">Tanenbaum, Andrew S; Albert S. Woodhull (14 January 2006). <i><a href="Operating_Systems%3A_Design_and_Implementation" title="Operating Systems: Design and Implementation">Operating Systems: Design and Implementation</a></i> (3rd ed.). <a href="Prentice_Hall" title="Prentice Hall">Prentice Hall</a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-13-142938-8</bdi>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Strobel-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Strobel_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Strobel_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFStrobelUhl1994" class="citation book cs1">Strobel, Stefan; Uhl, Thomas (1994). <i>Linux—Unleashing the Workstation in Your PC</i>. Springer-Verlag. p. 54.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Mauerer-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Mauerer_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Mauerer_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFMauerer2010" class="citation book cs1">Mauerer, Wolfgang (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-6zvRFEfQ24C&pg=PT490"><i>Professional Linux Kernel Architecture</i></a>. John Wiley & Sons. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>9781118079911</bdi>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nico/archive/+/refs/tags/v0.01">"linux release 0.01 - refs/tags/v0.01 - pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nico/archive - Git at Google"</a>. <i>kernel.googlesource.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2024-03-29</span></span>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://minix1.woodhull.com/faq/filesize.html">File, file system, and memory size limits in Minix</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mfstool.sourceforge.net/">Minix Filesystem Tool</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ohm.hgesser.de/sp-ss2012/Intro-MinixFS.pdf">Introduction to the minix file system</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Comparison_of_file_systems" title="Comparison of file systems">Comparison of file systems</a>

<ul><li><a href="Comparison_of_distributed_file_systems" title="Comparison of distributed file systems">distributed</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Unix_filesystem" title="Unix filesystem">Unix filesystem</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="AdvFS" title="AdvFS">AdvFS</a></li>

<li><a href="Amiga_Fast_File_System" title="Amiga Fast File System">Amiga FFS</a></li>

<li><a href="Amiga_Old_File_System" title="Amiga Old File System">Amiga OFS</a></li>

<li><a href="AtheOS_File_System" class="mw-redirect" title="AtheOS File System">AthFS</a></li>

<li><a href="Bcachefs" title="Bcachefs">bcachefs</a></li>

<li>BFS

<ul><li><a href="Be_File_System" title="Be File System">Be File System</a></li>

<li><a href="Boot_File_System" title="Boot File System">Boot File System</a></li>

<li>Byte File System (<a href="Z/VM" title="Z/VM">z/VM</a>)</li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Btrfs" title="Btrfs">Btrfs</a></li>

<li>EFS

<ul><li><a href="Encrypting_File_System" title="Encrypting File System">Encrypting File System</a></li>

<li><a href="Extent_File_System" title="Extent File System">Extent File System</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Episode_filesystem" title="Episode filesystem">Episode</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="ExFAT" title="ExFAT">exFAT</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Files-11" title="Files-11">Files-11</a></li>

<li><a href="Fossil_(file_system)" title="Fossil (file system)">Fossil</a></li>

<li><a href="HAMMER_(file_system)" title="HAMMER (file system)">HAMMER</a>

<ul><li><a href="HAMMER2" title="HAMMER2">HAMMER2</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Hierarchical_File_System_(Apple)" title="Hierarchical File System (Apple)">HFS</a> (<a href="Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">Classic Mac OS</a>)</li>

<li>MFS

<ul><li><a href="Macintosh_File_System" title="Macintosh File System">Macintosh File System</a></li>

<li><a href="TiVo_Media_File_System" title="TiVo Media File System">TiVo Media File System</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="NetWare_File_System" title="NetWare File System">NetWare File System</a></li>

<li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS</a>

<ul><li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS2</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="OneFS_distributed_file_system" title="OneFS distributed file system">OneFS</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenZFS" title="OpenZFS">OpenZFS</a></li>

<li><a href="ReiserFS" title="ReiserFS">ReiserFS</a>

<ul><li><a href="Reiser4" title="Reiser4">Reiser4</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Datalight#Reliance_family" title="Datalight">Reliance</a></li>

<li><a href="Datalight#Reliance_Nitro" title="Datalight">Reliance Nitro</a></li>

<li>SFS

<ul><li>Shared File System (<a href="VM_(operating_system)" title="VM (operating system)">VM</a>)</li>

<li><a href="Smart_File_System" title="Smart File System">Smart File System</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Soup_(Apple)" title="Soup (Apple)">Soup (Apple)</a></li>

<li><a href="UBIFS" title="UBIFS">UBIFS</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Soft_updates" title="Soft updates">soft updates</a></li>

<li><a href="Write_Ahead_Physical_Block_Logging" title="Write Ahead Physical Block Logging">WAPBL</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Xiafs" title="Xiafs">Xiafs</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Optical_disc" title="Optical disc">Optical disc</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Flash_memory" title="Flash memory">Flash memory</a> and <a href="Solid-state_drive" title="Solid-state drive">SSD</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="ExFAT" title="ExFAT">exFAT</a></li>

<li><a href="EROFS" title="EROFS">EROFS</a></li>

</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="host-side_wear_leveling27" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">host-side <a href="Wear_leveling" title="Wear leveling">wear leveling</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="LogFS" title="LogFS">LogFS</a></li>

<li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS</a>

<ul><li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS2</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="YAFFS" title="YAFFS">YAFFS</a></li>

<li><a href="UBIFS" title="UBIFS">UBIFS</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Clustered_file_system#Distributed_file_systems" title="Clustered file system">Distributed parallel</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="BeeGFS" title="BeeGFS">BeeGFS</a></li>

<li><a href="Google_File_System" title="Google File System">Google File System</a></li>

<li><a href="OrangeFS" title="OrangeFS">OrangeFS</a></li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Network-attached_storage" title="Network-attached storage">NAS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Andrew_File_System" title="Andrew File System">AFS</a> (<a href="OpenAFS" title="OpenAFS">OpenAFS</a>)</li>

<li><a href="Google_File_System" title="Google File System">Google File System</a></li>

<li><a href="Lustre_(file_system)" title="Lustre (file system)">Lustre</a></li>

<li><a href="Elliptics" title="Elliptics">POHMELFS</a></li>

<li><a href="Apache_Hadoop" title="Apache Hadoop">Hadoop</a></li>

<li><a href="SSHFS" title="SSHFS">SSHFS</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Specialized</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Boot_File_System" title="Boot File System">Boot File System</a></li>

<li><a href="Compact_Disc_File_System" title="Compact Disc File System">Compact Disc File System</a></li>

<li><a href="Cramfs" title="Cramfs">cramfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Davfs2" title="Davfs2">Davfs2</a></li>

<li><a href="EROFS" title="EROFS">EROFS</a></li>

<li><a href="FTPFS" title="FTPFS">FTPFS</a></li>

<li><a href="SquashFS" title="SquashFS">SquashFS</a></li>

<li><a href="FAT_filesystem_and_Linux" title="FAT filesystem and Linux">UMSDOS</a></li>

<li><a href="OverlayFS" title="OverlayFS">OverlayFS</a></li>

<li><a href="UnionFS" title="UnionFS">UnionFS</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pseudo</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Configfs" title="Configfs">configfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Device_file" title="Device file">devfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Debugfs" title="Debugfs">debugfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Kernfs_(BSD)" title="Kernfs (BSD)">kernfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Procfs" title="Procfs">procfs</a></li>

<li>specfs</li>

<li><a href="Sysfs" title="Sysfs">sysfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Tmpfs" title="Tmpfs">tmpfs</a></li>

<li><a href="WinFS" title="WinFS">WinFS</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Filesystem-level_encryption" title="Filesystem-level encryption">Encrypted</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="ECryptfs" title="ECryptfs">eCryptfs</a></li>

<li><a href="EncFS" title="EncFS">EncFS</a></li>

<li><a href="Rubberhose_(file_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubberhose (file system)">Rubberhose</a></li>

<li><a href="SSHFS" title="SSHFS">SSHFS</a></li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Types</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Clustered_file_system" title="Clustered file system">Clustered</a>

<ul><li><a href="Global_file_system" title="Global file system">Global</a></li>

<li><a href="Self-certifying_File_System" title="Self-certifying File System">Self-certifying</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Flash_file_system" title="Flash file system">Flash</a></li>

<li><a href="Journaling_file_system" title="Journaling file system">Journaling</a></li>

<li><a href="Log-structured_file_system" title="Log-structured file system">Log-structured</a></li>

<li><a href="Object_storage" title="Object storage">Object</a></li>

<li><a href="Record-oriented_filesystem" title="Record-oriented filesystem">Record-oriented</a></li>

<li><a href="Semantic_file_system" title="Semantic file system">Semantic</a></li>

<li><a href="Steganographic_file_system" title="Steganographic file system">Steganographic</a></li>

<li><a href="Synthetic_file_system" title="Synthetic file system">Synthetic</a></li>

<li><a href="Versioning_file_system" title="Versioning file system">Versioning</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Features</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Case_preservation" title="Case preservation">Case preservation</a></li>

<li><a href="Copy-on-write" title="Copy-on-write">Copy-on-write</a></li>

<li><a href="Data_deduplication" title="Data deduplication">Data deduplication</a></li>

<li><a href="Data_scrubbing" title="Data scrubbing">Data scrubbing</a></li>

<li><a href="Execute_in_place" title="Execute in place">Execute in place</a></li>

<li><a href="Extent_(file_systems)" title="Extent (file systems)">Extent</a></li>

<li><a href="File_attribute" title="File attribute">File attribute</a>

<ul><li><a href="Extended_file_attributes" title="Extended file attributes">Extended file attributes</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="File_change_log" title="File change log">File change log</a></li>

<li><a href="Inode" title="Inode">Inode</a></li>

<li>Links

<li><a href="Symbolic_link" title="Symbolic link">Symbolic</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Computer_access_control" title="Computer access control">Access control</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Access-control_list" title="Access-control list">Access-control list</a></li>

<li><a href="Filesystem-level_encryption" title="Filesystem-level encryption">Filesystem-level encryption</a></li>

<li><a href="File-system_permissions" title="File-system permissions">Permissions</a>

<ul><li><a href="Chmod" title="Chmod">Modes</a></li>

<li><a href="Sticky_bit" title="Sticky bit">Sticky bit</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Interface_(computing)" title="Interface (computing)">Interfaces</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="File_manager" title="File manager">File manager</a></li>

<li><a href="File_system_API" title="File system API">File system API</a>

<ul><li><a href="Installable_File_System" title="Installable File System">Installable File System</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Virtual_file_system" title="Virtual file system">Virtual file system</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_file_systems" title="List of file systems">Lists</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_cryptographic_file_systems" title="List of cryptographic file systems">Cryptographic</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_default_file_systems" title="List of default file systems">Default</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_log-structured_file_systems" title="List of log-structured file systems">Log-structured</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Layouts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Master_Boot_Record" class="mw-redirect" title="Master Boot Record">Master Boot Record</a></li>

<li><a href="GUID_Partition_Table" title="GUID Partition Table">GUID Partition Table</a></li>

<li><a href="Apple_Partition_Map" title="Apple Partition Map">Apple Partition Map</a></li></ul>

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