How to Structure a Complete File-System Answer

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  • - Start from user-level file concept and metadata.
  • - Then describe operations (create/open/read/write/seek/close).
  • - Then directory organization and path naming.
  • - Then on-disk structures: boot block, super block, inode, data blocks.
  • - End with allocation + free-space methods and trade-off summary.