Why I Didn’t Convert My Primary Workstation to BtrFS
When I started writing this series about the BtrFS filesystem, I fully intended to migrate my primary workstation from EXT4 so that I could get...
Introduction to the BtrFS Filesystem
Over the nearly 30 years I have been using Linux, the default filesystem for Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) and Fedora, the EXT series of...
Everything you never wanted to know about the /etc/fstab File
Mounting of filesystems during the startup process is managed by the /etc/fstab configuration file.
The secret to fixing a mangled filesystem
Modern computers and the storage devices we use in them, both HDDs and SSDs, are quite resilient. It's seldom that a power failure, tripping over...
A user’s guide to links in the Linux filesystem
Learn how to use links, which make tasks easier by providing access to files from multiple locations in the Linux filesystem directory tree.
Everything is a file
When everything is a file Difficult things are easy and impossible things are merely hard.
An Introduction to Linux Filesystems
This article is intended to be a very high-level discussion of Linux filesystem concepts. It is not intended to be a low-level description of how...