If you've been running Linux for a while, you're probably using the now slightly-outdated EXT2 or EXT3 file system.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, faster, ...

So a couple people (drag, I think?) labeled XFS as particularly "robust" and fast and, presumably, awesome. OK. This is not an argument, this is a question: if it's more robust than ext4, why are we ...

Linux, the open source operating system that powers countless servers, devices, and personal computers worldwide, owes much of its versatility to the myriad of filesystems available. These filesystems ...

More and more articles have been appearing on the EXT4 filesystem. In fact, the article that really caught my eye was one recently regarding the speed of using EXT4 on flash media. The benchmarks ...

Linux provides quite a few commands to look into file system types. Here's a look at the various file system types used by Linux systems and the commands that will identify them. Linux systems use a ...

Question, on a 2TB drive how much space is wasted by using normal amount of inodes instead of largefile or largefile4, I created my filesystems with normal but I only have files in the 100MB to 4GB ...

Learn from my mistakes as I figure out how to gather forensics data on an ext4 filesystem. One great thing about writing technical articles is that you have a nice collection of documentation you can ...

Before we start, ensure never to write anything to EXT4 drives from Windows. EXT formats have their way of journaling and writing files into the system. If you find software that can do so, there is ...