Unix has its fingerprints all over Linux, and it's why it feels so different compared to Windows ...

Root (aka “/”) is where all other directories are found. If you issue the command ls /, the output will include directories like bin, boot, dev, home, etc, media, mnt, opt, sbin, srv, and var. The ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

An ex-Google engineer is developing a new file system for Linux, with the hopes that it can offer a speedier and more advanced way of storing data on servers. After a number of years of development, ...

In Linux, there are many ways to secure your files. Among them are the file system attributes. In this article you'll learn how to apply them. Before starting to do anything using file system ...

Basically, it's important to seperate the /home, /usr, and / directories in case of corruption. This means a lot less to the average home user then it does in a corporate enviroment. / doesn't take ...

First, let me just say that I am nervous even starting this topic, since my experience with Linux has only been for a couple of years, whereas there are many, many others here (and elsewhere) who have ...

Systemd handles mounting and automounting of file systems in a new way for Linux admins. If you're used to /etc/fstab and autofs, it's time to learn anew. Linux systemd, introduced on Red Hat ...

There are many others. You can find systems to work with, for example, NTFS and a slew of cloud service providers. If this is such a great idea, is there a Windows equivalent? Yes, there is. Winfsp ...

Some days, it doesn't rain, it pours. That's the case with Linux today. Not one, but two serious security holes have recently been exposed. First, there was a systemd bug which could easily knock out ...