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file system

concrete format or program for storing files and directories on a data storage device
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file system

Summary

file system is an operating system component[1]. It draws 457 Wikipedia views per month (operating_system_component category, ranking #1 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • file system's image is recorded as FileFolders.svg[3].
  • file system's instance of is recorded as operating system component[4].
  • file system's subclass of is recorded as disk storage format[5].
  • file system's subclass of is recorded as data store[6].
  • file system's subclass of is recorded as filestore[7].
  • file system's part of is recorded as operating system[8].
  • file system's part of is recorded as volume[9].
  • file system's part of is recorded as technical standard[10].
  • file system's Commons category is recorded as File systems[11].
  • file system's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03yy97[12].
  • file system's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Computer file systems[13].
  • file system's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0251383[14].
  • file system's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox file system[15].
  • file system's topic has template is recorded as Template:File systems[16].
  • file system's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/filesystems[17].
  • file system's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/filesystems[18].
  • file system's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3559[19].
  • file system's equivalent class is recorded as http://d3fend.mitre.org/ontologies/d3fend.owl#FileSystem[20].
  • file system's different from is recorded as volume[21].
  • file system's different from is recorded as virtual file system[22].
  • file system's different from is recorded as filing cabinet[23].
  • file system's different from is recorded as file format[24].
  • file system's different from is recorded as filing system[25].
  • file system's uses is recorded as technical standard[26].
  • file system's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4705259[27].

Why It Matters

file system draws 457 Wikipedia views per month (operating_system_component category, ranking #1 of 9).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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