Many people today work on mixed networks, with both Linux and Windows systems playing important roles. Sharing files between the two can be critical at times and is surprisingly easy with the right ...

File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions? The /etc/fstab file is ...

In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is organized, stored, ...

File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This article aims ...

I do a good bit of cross platform development using Linux and Microsoft Windows. I can access Windows partitions from Linux using drivers that handle the FAT and NTFS file systems. Linux has its own ...

I am planning on dual booting my new computer. I would like to make the majority of my 120 Gig drive available to both winXP and Linux. I was thinking 10 Gigs as a linux partision(s), 10 Gigs as an XP ...

@senan79: LogFS and nilfs probably have little to no overlap in use cases. Having used LogFS at work, it is a filesystem for raw NAND flash devices (mtd devices). nilfs from what I read works on more ...