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 ...

The Hackosis blog notes a contentious conversation thread between Linux creator Linus Torvalds and a programmer who finds that disabling the atime option, which writes a last-accessed time to every ...

Graphical installers have their place, but in your case, as often happens, they help you do something without helping you to understand how you'd do it manually. This is one thing I like about Arch; ...

Currently ext4 can be recommended as a safe choice. F2FS is a modern file system optimized for flash-based storage, and is a very good choice, but is still in experimental stage. Kernel support for ...