Microsoft's latest Windows 10 preview lets users attach and mount a physical disk inside their Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) distribution of choice. The new feature is available in Windows 10 ...

Lack of access to your data in a new operating system may be one of the most severe impediments for doing an OS migration. There is little personal incentive for users to switch to a system that can't ...

Earlier this year Microsoft shared its plans to integrate a full Linux kernel in Windows 10 — now it’s introducing Linux file access into the File Explorer. Users have been able to access Linux files ...

The new 'amifuse' project aims to fix that with a new filesystem driver built around an invisible m68k CPU emulator. Amifuse ...

As a comparison, I ran my test script against a set of standard filesystems in the Linux kernel that most users will be familiar with. As well as being of general interest, it also gives a good range ...

File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions? The /etc/fstab file is ...

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 ...

Some days, it doesn't rain, it pours. That's the case with Linux today. Not one, but two serious security holes have recently been exposed. First, there was a systemd bug which could easily knock out ...

Linux filesystems, such as EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4, are designed to minimize fragmentation, but it can still occur, especially on systems with limited disk space. Defragmentation in Linux is less common ...

Also in today’s open source roundup: An introduction to Linux filesystems, and a Mac user considers switching to elementary OS Linux has been around for a long time now, and many of us take it for ...