Operating system is a kind of software that interacts with the hardware make it work as per the end user's instructions. Without an OS, the hardware is like a deaf and dumb. Just imagine this situation. You want to speak to a Chinese and you know only english and the Chinese person is not knowing … Read more
A plain hard disk cannot store data until it is formatted into some file system. We have different file systems like FAT32, ext2, ext3, reiserFS
(Comparision of File systems).
Also sometimes if it is needed to segregate and store such that they remain and operate independently. Then its recommended to create partitions(using some filesystem) … Read more