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 difference is, ...

A new Linux filesystem gets rid of the 256-petabyte limit, and adds a checksum feature for the journal. But developers want you to know that it’s not yet ready for production sytems. Linux’s ext4 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost every bit of data needed to boot and run a Linux system is stored in a filesystem. Learn more about some commonly used Linux filesystem types. Linux supports quite a few filesystem types. Your ...

The ext4 filesystem has been around for a while as experimental code in GNU/Linux distributions. Recently one distribution decided to make it the default for an install. Fedora, Red Hat's community ...

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 ...

In a significant advancement for Linux users, Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux 6.19, introducing groundbreaking enhancements that breathe new life into older AMD Radeon GPUs and optimize ...

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 ...

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 difference is, ...