Filesystems and operating systems

Now that we've covered the physical, let's get logical! Any and every type of storage media needs to be formatted with a particular filesystem. The filesystem chosen will also determine which operating system can be installed on the medium, along with file and partition sizes.

A simple way to think of this is to imagine a blank sheet of paper as any type of new or wiped storage media. We can put several types of information on this piece of paper, but we'll probably first want to organize or prepare the sheet of paper in a way that makes our data easy to understand, access, and even store. We can choose to write on it from left to right in sentences and paragraphs in English, or we can perhaps create tables using rows and columns. We can even use printed slides to display our data, or even use images, graphs, and flowcharts. Additionally, we can format our storage media in a way that best suits the data that will be stored and used...