File Management
Computer Science: Edexcel IGCSE, topic 4.4.4
File Manager
Files are documents and executable programs that are stored on a computer's secondary storage. The operating system needs a way to manage these files.
Locations
- The file manager is responsible for keeping track of where specific files and folders are located in secondary storage.
File types
- The file manager is responsible for determining the type of a file, and sending it to the correct application.
Access rights
- The file manager is responsible for setting and managing the access rights of each file.
- For example, the file manager decides if a file can be:
- Read.
- Modified.
- Executed.
Test yourself on File Management
What access rights might the file manager track?