Linux Today - Storage

We have all been in the situation where we ran out of space, and need to add another drive.

Nixcraft: NVMe is an acronym for Non-Volatile Memory Express.

With NFS, you can mount remote directories on your system and work with the files on the remote machine as if they were local files.

BleachBit, a system cleaner (and more) for Linux and Windows, was updated to version 2.3

Ars Technica: Let's take a sneak ZFS peek under the hood of Ubuntu Eoan Ermine's latest build.

Network World: A look at three Linux commands - ps, pstree and tree - for viewing files and processes in a tree-like format.

This tutorial will teach you how to create persistent Live USB using Mkusb tool on Ubuntu and its variants like Linux mint.

Recovering deleted files isn't easy, but it isn't impossible.

This brief tutorial describes how to create directories named with current date, time, month and year from commandline in Linux.

This article shows you several practical examples on how to perform various backup operations of MySQL databases

Most of us have installed tens of applications in our machines

When we delete a file from a filesystem, the data is not physically removed

Phoronix: Samba 4.12 for SMB3 file transfers with encryption will be an order of 4~6 times faster than current performance levels

One can use the tar command over ssh sessions to transfer archives, files, backups and hard drive images securely

 Some files are trickier to manage than others...

If you've mounted your Windows partition in Linux, you may find that you are not able to write to it.

Learn how you can clear the Dropbox cache both through the UI and the command line on Ubuntu Linux.

Learn how to install the latest version of FreeBSD 12.0 on ZFS

exFAT is a proprietary Microsoft file system optimized for flash memory devices such as SD cards and USB flash drives.

Learn how to format a USB Drive or SD Card on Linux using the parted utility.

Bzip2 is one of the most popular algorithms for compressing tar files.

2DayGeek: The rsync command allows the Linux administrator to synchronize files between local and remote system.

NetworkWorld: Linux provides lots of commands for finding, counting, and renaming files. Here's a look at some useful choices.

Phoronix: The mature XFS and Btrfs file-systems continue seeing more fixes and cleaning with the now in-development Linux 5.4 kernel.

Foremost is a very useful open source forensic utility which is able to recover deleted files using the technique called data carving

This brief guide explains how to delete files that have not been accessed for a given time using Tmpwatch or Tmpreaper on Linux.

Gunzip is a command-line tool for decompressing Gzip files.

Monitoring storage device(s) space usage is one of the most important tasks of a SysAdmin

Learn how to delete files older or newer than N days, with extra examples like matching only files using a particular extension, and more.

2DayGeek: The rsync command allows the administrator to synchronize the local backup with the remote server.

Learn how to remove symbolic links using the rm, unlink, and find commands.

Learn how to install and use Cruftbuster to clean a Linux PC.

This quick tour offers a non-threatening introduction for DOS/Windows users to the not-so-different Linux filesystem structure

EnterpriseStorageForum: Memory ballooning is an effective approach to memory management in hypervisor virtualization technology, though it comes with some trade-offs.

rm is a command-line utility for removing files and directories.

The fallocate is one of the lesser known commands for creating files.

techrights: Microsoft and its boosters (media insiders) spread the illusion that Microsoft is "opening up"

 itsfoss: Learn the concept of swap file in Linux, why it is used and its advantages over the traditional swap

techrights: Contrary to what Microsoft-dominated media is trying to tell us, Linux does not need exFAT

Much like Uber doesn't own its own cars, Storj Labs relies on a network of storage node operators to power its decentralized cloud storage platform.