Top: Filesystems

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• 2GB Filesize Limit - The old 2GB filesize limit on 32-bit versions of Linux, and newer LFS support to fix it
• ACLs - Support for POSIX ACLs and similar fine-grained permission systems on Linux
• AFS - Open-sourcing of the IBM/Transarc Andrew Filesystem (AFS) software
• Compressed Filesystems - Census of compressed filesystems on Linux
• CVS on NFS - Are there any ways to safely put CVSROOT on an NFS volume?
• Defragmenting - Why you don't need a defragmenter, and what to use if you insist anyway
• Dump Options - What are the correct length, size, and blocking factor sizes for dump on Linux?
• Ext2 Compression - Patches and utilities to support transparent compression on ext2
• ext3 Conversion - Converting ext2 to ext3 (and back)
• ext3 No Undeletion - Why undeleting files on ext3 isn't possible, even though it is on ext2
• ext3 Undeletion - How to undelete files on ext3, despite conventional wisdom saying you cannot
• extended file attributes - Extended file attributes in (specifically) the 'user' namespace and their potential for abuse and privacy violation at the hands of application developers
• Filesystem Bestiary - List of some of the more eccentric filesystems for Linux and similar
• Filesystem Metadata Options - Comparison of the FFS w/ softupdates vs. logged filesystem (LFS, aka journaled filesystem) approaches
• Filesystem Tutorial - Explanation of Unix filesystem internals
• Fixing Filenames - David A. Wheeler's article 'Fixing Unix - Linux - POSIX Filenames', an instant classic in detailing scripting problems even without his wise recommendations about a long-term fix
• Flash Media - Reasons why filesystems on NAND flash media are problematic, by David Woodhouse
• Free Disk Space - How do I find out how much free disk space I have?
• Gpart - Tool to recover/rebuild damaged or deleted PC hard drive partitions, of various types
• GRUB + RAID HOWTO - Michael Martucci's explanation of how to set up GRUB to boot from a software RAID volume
• HD Exact Copy - How do I make an exact copy of a hard drive's contents?
• HFS+ - Access to HFS+ volumes via a KDE ioslave, kio-mac
• Journaling Filesystems Comparison - Comparison of ext3, ext2, ReiserFS, XFS, and JFS
• Journaling Filesystems Comparison - Comparison of ext3, ReiserFS, and XFS
• MBR - Open source 'ms-sys' package to write a Microsoft/IBM-style boot sector to any hard drive or floppy; similar in effect to MS-DOS's 'FDISK.EXE /MBR' or 'SYS.COM A:'
• MBR Docs - Technical design of various versions of the standard Microsoft/IBM boot sector
• NFS Mount Failure - How do I diagnose and fix NFS mount failures?
• NFS v3, v4 - Is there support in Linux for NFS v. 3? For NFS v. 4?
• NT Access to Linux Filesystems - Are there any ways for MS-Windows NT to have access to native-Linux filesystems?
• NTFS - Dealing with the NTFS problem on Linux
• Quotas - Configuring filesystem quota support
• RAID Levels - Daniel Phillips of Sistina Software disambiguates all the primary RAID levels, including the ones usually skipped over (PDF)
• Reclaim FAT Partition - How do I reallocate to Linux my no-longer-needed Win9x FAT partition?
• ReiserFS - ext2/ext3 code author Ted T'so explains why most other filesystems, notably ReiserFS, are a reliability hazard when used with PC hardware and no UPS
• Remove Linux Partitions - How do I remove Linux partitions to make way for some other OS?
• Resizing Linux Partitions - Are there any tools for non-destructively resizing Linux partitions?
• Resizing software RAID - Detailed recipe for migrating a Linux RAID1 mirror pair to larger hard drives
• Swap Explanation - Martin Pool explains Linux virtual memory and paging
• Swap Explanation Follow-up - Martin Pool elaborates on his swap explanation to detail why it's normal for Linux systems to have negligible free memory
• VFAT File system Ownership - How do I make a filesystem shared with MS-Windows be writeable by users other than just the root user?
• XFS Conversion - Converting to the XFS journaling filesystem, in the general case