Ok I'm going to be formatting the two 5Tb partitions and I'm going to use ext4 this time as it better supports large file systems. I'm going to be storing mainly photos and I know there are several ...

Linux server admins must think carefully about which file system to choose -- XFS or ext4 -- based on each device's role and storage requirements. Desktop deployment and support personnel may find a ...

I'm not the admin on the box, just the user, but our admin team are more Windows guys. I was running a quick loop over a set of file in a 1087 file directory on a 4xRAID 0 array formatted ext4 when ...

If you've been running Linux for a while, you're probably using the now slightly-outdated EXT2 or EXT3 file system.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

While it may not be obvious to the casual user, Linux file systems have evolved significantly over the last decade or so to make them more resistant to corruption and performance problems. Most Linux ...