Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...

It’s important to note, however, that the term disk-to-disk backup may be a bit misleading. What we’re really talking about when we use the expression “disk-to-disk backup” is actually disk-to-disk-to ...

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 ...

Create a live system ISO for your Ubuntu-based Linux machines using Systemback Your email has been sent Jack Wallen introduces you to an easy way to create live ISO images of your currently running ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Correctly sizing a disk backup ...

NERSC recently unveiled their new Community File System (CFS), a long-term data storage tier developed in collaboration with IBM that is optimized for capacity and manageability. The CFS replaces ...

It has been four years since IBM announced its Storage Tank platform, a SAN-based file system designed to enable multiple application servers to access and share files in a single namespace across ...

Samsung codesmith Jaegeuk Kim has submitted a new "flash-friendly" file system to the Linux Kernel tree. The new file system, coined F2FS (flash-friendly file system), is actually open source and is ...