A filesystem is a fundamental component of any operating system. It is the system that manages how data is stored and retrieved on a storage device. In the world of Linux, filesystems play a crucial ...

On Linux, the umask defines how new files and directories inherit access rights. Linux uses your current umask value to ...

Get to know the Linux hosts file and how to use it Your email has been sent If you're new to Linux, there's a very handy file you'll want to learn about right away. Jack Wallen introduces you to the ...

BOSTON - At the Linux Foundation's new Vault show, it's all about file systems and storage. You might think that there's nothing new to say about either topic, but you'd be wrong. To deal with this, ...

Log files. They're there for a reason -- to keep track of what goes on behind the velvet curtain of your operating system. When things go wrong, entries are added to those log files, so you can view ...

Windows 10 isn’t the only (kind of) free operating system you can install on your computer. Linux can run from just a USB drive without modifying your existing system, but you’ll want to install it on ...

When Apple was about to introduce Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, John Siracusa wrote in the summer of 2006 about how a new file system should be coming to Macs (which it did, 11 years later). The ...

This post describes testdisk, one of the tools that comes in handy for recovering recently deleted files (along with fixing partitions in other ways). When you delete a file on a Linux system, it ...