Introduction
Each application creates its own file structure and a file created by one application is usually not usable by another except for some universal formats like ASCII, PDF, HTML, and RTF. However there is a basic underlying similarity in storage media in that all storage media are divided into storage blocks of 512 bytes each. In this paper we shall discuss the file structures in three operating systems – Mac OSX, Windows OS, and Linux/Unix. Mac OS is Apples GUI (Graphic User Interface) based operating system. The newest releases since 2001 have been released under the brand name Mac OSX. The ...
