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 ...

The btrfsck command is a filesystem-check command like fsck, but it works with the btrfs file system. First a little bit about btrfs. As the name implies, btrfs uses a B-tree data structure that is ...

No matter how high-capacity your storage drive is, you always need to see how much space you have used and what files are using it. While there are ways to do this from the GUI in Linux, as always, ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

Running out of disk space on Linux can cause many issues. Discover simple, safe ways to clean files, logs, and unused packages, and free up disk space.

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 ...