So I am looking to dual boot my machine and I need windows and linux to share a partition on the hard drive that has 'data' that is OS agnostic (music, documents, whatever). I used to format this ...

First let me state I plan to completely eliminate windows (except one kids computer for kiddie games) but just use mac mini and linux distros (mepis, etc.). So I have 3 x 200GB and 2 x 250GB (1.1TB) ...

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If you've been running Linux for a while, you're probably using the now slightly-outdated EXT2 or EXT3 file system.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

ITworld.com – The problem: We needed to efficiently and rapidly deploy five identical systems with two large hard disks configured as a hardware-controlled RAID 1 running Linux on the ext3, a ...

ACLs, or Access Control Lists, are available for a variety of Linux filesystems including ext2, ext3, and XFS. With XFS, ACL support is available pretty much “out of the box” and with ext2/ext3, it’s ...

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 ...