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 ...

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, ...

With a handful of commands and a trick or two, you can move around the Linux file system with ease and never get lost. One of the first things Linux users need to learn is how to move around the Linux ...

Tiny Core Linux is a true example of just how small a functional desktop operating system can be, even in 2025.

Btrfs is a new file system for Linux, one that is still very much in development. Although I wouldn't exactly describe it as "experimental" any more, it is, as stated in the Wiki at kernel.org, "a ...

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 ...

For this issue we cover the Linux.Ars visit to the OhioLinux fest, LVM snapshotting with XFS for hot backups, Tomboy, and more. On October 2nd, Jorge Castro and I found ourselves on our way to the ...

The newest enterprise edition of the Suse Linux distribution allows administrators to go back in time, for instance, to immediately before they made that fatal system-crippling mistake. Suse Linux ...

Fastest 10-node production result in IO500 history achieved using standard Linux, NFSv4.2 and off-the-shelf NVMe Supercomputing 2025 -- Hammerspace, the high-performance data platform for AI Anywhere, ...