File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This article aims ...

Using networked file systems is a common method for sharing disk space on UNIX-like systems, including Linux. Sun was the first to embrace this technology by introducing the Network File System (NFS), ...

“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” is a line from Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West. It could also apply to Windows and Linux. If you don’t know what you’re ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...

In its latest gesture to the open-source community, Microsoft Corp. today pledged to make its widely used exFAT file system available on Linux. The software, which is also known as the Extended File ...

There are a number of Linux commands that will display file system types along with the file system names, mount points and such. Some will also display sizes and available disk space. The df command ...

I recently got my first mac, a mid-2014 macbook pro. At home I run a linux fileserver, and connect to it primarily with my windows desktop with samba on the server side. The mac seems to perform ...

One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file. This modest little file ...