how many types of file in unix?

Answer Posted / nishikant

Everything in Unix system is consider as a file system.
Generally we have 3 types of file system as below:

1) Ordinary file system :
Regular files, semaphore,linked files,block special
files, character special etc...

2) Directory file system:
derectory files like /bin, /use,/home,/tmp, even
if /root etc... that is directory+files.

3) Device file system :
Its purely releated to the device configuration in
UNIX OS.

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