Configuring Security and Devices
William Panek · 2019
This chapter discusses how to configure filesystem. It also states that depending on how the filesystem is configured depends on how we can set up security for data and devices. A partition is a logical division of hard-drive space. Each partition you create under Windows 10 must have a filesystem associated with it. Partitions allow a single physical hard drive to be represented in the operating system as multiple drive letters and to be used as if there were multiple hard drives installed in the machine. When selecting a filesystem, you can select FAT32 or NTFS. You typically select a filesystem based on the features you want to use and whether you will need to access the filesystem using other operating systems. Your filesystem is used to track the storage of fi les on your hard drive in a way that is easily understood by end users while still allowing the operating system the ability to retrieve the fi les as requested. One of the fundamental choices associated with fi le management is the choice of your filesystem's configuration. It is recommended that you use the NTFS filesystem with Windows 10 because doing so will allow you to take advantage of features such as local security, file compression, and file encryption.