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Practical 3 CS(407) File Creation and Management

File management is one of the basic and important features of operating system. Operating
system is used to manage files of computer system. All the files with different extensions are
managed by operating system.

A file is collection of specific information stored in the memory of computer system. File
management is defined as the process of manipulating files in computer system, it
management includes the process of creating, modifying and deleting the files.

The following are some of the tasks performed by file management of operating system of
any computer system:

1. It helps to create new files in computer system and placing them at the specific locations.
2. It helps in easily and quickly locating these files in computer system.
3. It makes the process of sharing of the files among different users very easy and user
friendly.
4. It helps to stores the files in separate folders known as directories. These directories help
users to search file quickly or to manage the files according to their types or uses.
5. It helps the user to modify the data of files or to modify the name of the file in the
directories.

The above figure shows the general hierarchy of the storage in an operating system. In this
figure the root directory is present at the highest level in the hierarchical structure. It includes
all the subdirectories in which the files are stored. Subdirectory is a directory present inside
another directory in the file storage system. The directory base storage system ensures better
organization of files in the memory of the computer system.

File management of function in operating system (OS) is based on the following concepts:

1. File Attributes
It specifies the characteristics of the files such as type, date of last modification, size,
location on disk etc. file attributes help the user to understand the value and location of files.
File attributes is one most important feature. It is uses to describe all the information
regarding particular file.

2. File Operations
It specifies the task that can be performed on a file such as opening and closing of file.

3. File Access permission


It specifies the access permissions related to a file such as read and write.

4. File Systems
It specifies the logical method of file storage in a computer system. Some of the commonly
used files systems include FAT and NTFS.

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