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 ...

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 ...

Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve The last new kernel release of 2025 is here, and it's looking likely this will be the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you dual-boot between Windows and Linux on your computer? This is a new way people use their computers to enjoy the benefits of both operating systems. The only problem that users face on Windows ...

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 ...

That's all I have for this weekend. I find new software every week, so if you're new, be sure to check out last week's list ...