If you've been running Linux for a while, you're probably using the now slightly-outdated EXT2 or EXT3 file system. Technology blog Ghacks has a guide to converting those formats to the newer ...

The Extended File System The Extended File System is actually a family that currently includes ext2, ext3, and ext4. It was the de facto standard for many years and it is still commonly used.

Compared to the original Ext filesystem, Ext2 offered improved performance, and was the default for most Linux installs at least until the introduction of Ext3 in 1999.

I just blew up my quick-backup drive and have to reformat. Is there any reason to use Ext2 over Ext3 on RH9? It was Ext2, and got a bad superblock (was writing a large file, and the server crashed ...

The default file system in Windows is NTFS, and the default file system in Ubuntu Linux is EXT4. The purpose of today’s 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux post is to try and understand what the ...

Ext4 was ultimately chosen over XFS because it would allow Google to do a live in-place upgrade of its existing Ext2 filesystems.

The default file system used in Ubuntu Linux--EXT4--is widely accepted as delivering superior performance to the NTFS file system used in Windows--today we explore why.