How To check file system of your OS

There are wide variety of File System available in different OS such as.

NTFS: New Technology File System
FAT: File Allocation Table
FAT32 : File Allocation Table

File system play an important part in functioning of your OS. NTFS gives your files local security and FAT has some limitation with file name size and size of drive that you can have.

Will be comparing the files system in details in my coming posts. But this post I will tell you how you can check what File System your PC is having.

• Double click on My Computer
• Choose the drive that you want to check your file system for
• Right Click and choose Properties.

You will able to see your file system there

It will show something like.

File System: NTFS
or
File System: FAT

If you right click on CD drive while a CD in the drive you will see

File System: CDFS which is Compat Disc File System

and you do same thing on dvd drive you will see

File System: UDF which is Universal Disk Format.