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A good administrator should have knowledge on what is a file system and how files are stored in file system. Having atleast some idea about these terms are helpful in restoring filesystem in emergency situations. What is Directory ? Directory is a collection of files stored as a group , say it is a group of files with single name. A directory can be classified into two types Root Directory : root is the parent of total directories , say main drive or main filesystem(/) is the root directory . Sub directory : these are the directories that comes under the root directory in hierarchy , In general a directory within a director can be called as sub directory.   What is a File? Files are collection of data items stored in a disk or it is a device which can store the information like data, music (mp3,ogg), photographs, movie, sound, book etc. It is like every thing you store Read more

Hello and welcome to basics of computer part2 , In previous post we have learned what is command prompt and how to use command prompt. So now you got a rough idea of how things work on your computer today let us know something more about how applications work and what a process mean in your computer and let us gain some more in depth of your computer performance and usage statistics. APPLICATION : An Application is a software package that is installed on your pc to do some of your tasks like suppose if you want to draw some rough sketches , you would open MSPAINT (just type ‘mspaint‘ in runbox) and draw something in it. Here MSPAINT is an application that you are using to do perform some task. PROCESS : As the definition of process itself says , Process is a series of activities of your way of doing it. Similarly here an application contains set of Read more