What is the purpose of FAT in windows ? What construct do you use in Linux/Unix instead of FAT? Explain the?

Question

differences between the two

Answer 1

The File Allocation Table was the legacy file system from Microsoft, SCP, IBM, Compaq, Digital Research, & Novell. It was mostly pushed by MS.



The file system that was originally designed for Linux was the Extended file system (ext) which is at version 4 (ext4) currently and will most likely be succeeded by the B-tree File System.



You will want to look through this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems for a better understanding.

Answer 2

FAT is an legacy filesystem. Modern Windows and Linux-based systems do not use FAT as their primary filesystem, although both support it fully (read/write). Windows systems use NTFS as the preferred filesystem. Most Linux-based systems tend to use ext4, but can work a significant number of alternatives. Some of these alternative filesystems work well in specialist situations; my main alternative is OCFS2.



FAT is typically provided by default on "small" removable media such as USB memory sticks, although it is perfectly possible to reformat a memory stick to use just about any filesystem you prefer.

Answer 3

"What construct do you use in Linux/Unix instead of FAT?"

The Ext 2,3and 4 file systems are used in Linux.

These file systems are auto defrag and also have a folder for files if PC crashes.



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Answer 4

Anymore it's used primarily of removable devices.



Linux can use FAT for the same thing and often does. However ext2 offers additional features (metadata) while minimizing writes to the device.