Btrfs is a modern copy-on-write Linux file system that includes advanced features for fault tolerance, repair, and administration. Btrfs uses a copy-on-write file system, ...

Linux provides a number of commands for compressing files — a good thing to do when files are fairly large and don’t need to be viewed or modified very often. The shrinkage will depend on 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 ...

You might, for example, use lseek to set a file position and just write something at the end so the file was preloaded. Before Linux 2.6.19, you had to call msync to make sure the file wrote to ...

Discover the power of Btrfs subvolumes and how they revolutionize storage management. Are they the ultimate solution for dynamic data handling?

If you ever need to write a binary file from a traditional language like C, it isn’t all that hard to do. About the worst thing you might have to deal with is attempts to fake line endings ac… ...

Also: I've used Linux for 30 years.Here are 5 reasons why I'll never switch to Windows or MacOS. One thing to remember is that standard users do not have full access (including write access) to ...

In conclusion, reading and writing a file from within the kernel is a bad, bad thing to do. Never do it. Ever. Both modules from this article, along with a Makefile for compiling them, are available ...