Explain activities of an os in regard to file management, Operating System

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What are the five major activities of an operating system in regard to file management?

The creation and deletion of files

The creation and deletion of directories

The support of primitives for manipulating files and directories

The mapping of files onto secondary storage

The backup of files on stable (nonvolatile) storage media

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