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Tyler wrote:The Windows philosophy might suck, but there is definetly not one better, the UNIX-likes are just not user friendly, however many Windows look alike desktops you throw over them.

The concept of "user friendlyness" is ill-defined as such. The problem is that it's a combination of easy-of-learning and effortlessness-of-using. Usually when you give the user more power, you also make it harder to learn. Windows is designed for ease-of-learning, while Unix is designed for effortlessness-of-using. It takes longer to learn how to use Unix well, but once you do, you can easily do stuff that it Windows is relatively painful.

I don't think there's much point trying to argue for one or the other.

That said, having seen people learn both Unix and Windows at the same time, with little or no previous experience with either (and the Unix in question was indeed traditional shell environment on a remote server), I've heard many comments about how Unix is more logical: you usually have to lookup the manual, but at least there's one and when you tell it to do something, that's what you get. YMMV.

matias_beretta wrote:i would like to know how can i get the filename of a disk sector.

Disk sectors do not have filenames attached to them. Actually, more advanced systems can use the same disk sector for multiple files. If you want to get the answer you must try all files and see wether they reference that specific sector.

The other way around is by design easier. (and it is probably what you want) You can try the wiki for a decent description of the FAT filesystem. If you want a different filesystem, google is your friend.