Editing FAT filesystem and Linux (section)

{{Short description|Widely used Linux filesystem format}}
[[Linux]] has several [[filesystem]] drivers for the [[File Allocation Table]] (FAT) filesystem format.  These are commonly known by the names used in the <code>[[mount (Unix)|mount]]</code> command to invoke particular drivers in the kernel: ''{{Not a typo|msdos}}'', ''{{Not a typo|vfat}}'', and ''{{Not a typo|umsdos}}''.<ref name="StanfieldSmith">{{cite book |title=Linux system administration |series=Craig Hunt Linux library |author-first1=Vicki |author-last1=Stanfield |author-first2=Roderick W. |author-last2=Smith |edition=2nd |publisher=[[John Wiley and Sons]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-7821-4138-2 |pages=166}}</ref><ref name="Ward">{{cite book |title=How Linux works: what every superuser should know |series=No Starch Press Series |author-first=Brian |author-last=Ward |publisher=[[No Starch Press]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-59327-035-3 |pages=41}}</ref>