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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In its latest gesture to the open-source community, Microsoft Corp. today pledged to make its widely used exFAT file system available on Linux. The software, which is also known as the Extended File ...

This select set of Linux commands can help you master the command line and speed up your use of the operating system. When coming up to speed as a Linux user, it helps to have a cheat sheet that can ...

Dropbox has announced that starting on November 7th 2018, only the ext4 file system will be supported in Linux for synchronizing folders in the Dropbox desktop app. Those Linux users who have synch on ...

Earlier this year Microsoft shared its plans to integrate a full Linux kernel in Windows 10 — now it’s introducing Linux file access into the File Explorer. Users have been able to access Linux files ...

If we dig a bit deeper into this subject and find why this phenomenon occurs in the first place, we’ll have our questions answered. Every Operating System has its file metadata, which differs from one ...