Much more still over at old.jandp.biz/is/filesystems/

Related areas:

• Allowed Names (Entries in File Systems) – jandp.biz/is/filesystems/allowed-names/
• Disks and Files Utilities – /is/apps/macos/disks-files/
• Dropbox – /is/apps/dropbox/
• Google Drive – /is/apps/google/drive/
• Finder and Finder Alternatives – /is/apps/macos/finder/
• What’s Eating my Disk…?! – /is/apps/macos/disks-files/whats-eating-my-disk/

Overview – Existing Different File Systems

Much more still over at old.jandp.biz/is/filesystems/

• Apple
  • 2017+ Apple Fie System, (APFS)
    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System
    • introduced with macOS 10.13, High Sierra
  • 1998+ HFS Plus, HFS+
    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus
  • google.com/search?q=apple+file+systems
• Microsoft
  • 1993+ NTFS
    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
  • 1977+: FAT
    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
• General
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems
  • Journaling file system
    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system

Directory Standards, Uses by OSs

Apple

Linux, *NIX

MS Windows

• google.com/search?q=file+system+directory+structure
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_structure
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
• geeksforgeeks.org/structures-of-directory-in-operating-system/
• ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2?topic=tree-file-system-structure – on differences between Directories and File Systems, and devices.

Technical – More in Depth

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system
• Types of file system, images search google.com/search?….