The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective From the archives: In the '90s, OS geeks adored BFS's ahead-of-its-time feature set.

Dubbed APFS, for "Apple File System," the session description implies that the new file system is a replacement for the aged HFS+ file system, which has been used in one form or another by OS X ...

In OS X Mavericks, Apple will begin migrating from its own legacy Apple Filing Protocol to Microsoft's SMB2 in an effort to enhance performance, security and cross platform file sharing. Macs running ...

This allows for one or more file systems to operate in conjunction with the OS. I/O management in embedded OSs provides an additional abstraction layer (to higher-level software) away from the ...

A file system is a major component of the operating system (OS). Applications command the OS to input and output data, and the file system reads and writes the sectors on the storage drive.

If needed, Apple's TextEdit program can be used to modify hidden system files.

In the "File System" dropdown, choose exFAT instead of NTFS. Click Start and close this window when finished. From then on, that drive should work fantastically between Mac and Windows machines.

While you can use the Terminal to manage files in another user's account, you can also use the Finder to do so, without running into any permissions blocks.