4. What are the major activities of an Operating System with regards to File Management?

  • File creation and deletion - system calls or commands.
  • Directory creation and deletion - system calls or commands.
  • Support of primitives for manipulating files and directories in an efficient manner - system calls or commands.
  • Mapping files onto secondary storage.
  • File backup on stable (nonvolatile) storage media.

EX: File Allocation Table (FAT) for Windows/PC systems