In a modern Linux operating system we usually take it for granted that when we insert a USB flash drive, best hard drive, or even a DVD disk, they just appear ready for use. But under the hood there ...

Linux stands as a bastion of power and flexibility in the world of operating systems, particularly when it comes to managing disk storage. Whether you're a seasoned sysadmin, a developer, or a Linux ...

Disk quotas are a mechanism for limiting the amount of disk space and the number of files (inodes) that a user or a group of users can consume. These limits prevent individual users or services from ...

There are many ways to evaluate disk space usage on Linux, and this post examines a number of commands that allow you to view used and available disk space. The df command stands for “disk free” and, ...

I currently have five external drives attached to my System76 Thelio, each of which serves a different purpose. I have one to house virtual machines, another for music files, another for backups, one ...

In the almost 20 years since Linux was first released into the world, free for anyone to use and modify however they like, the operating system has been put to a lot of uses. Today, a vast number of ...

A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). It is the actual physical material that ...

At the 2021 SNIA Storage Developers Conference (SDC) there were presentations on many different storage technologies, interfaces, system architectures, computational storage and other topics. This ...

So, I had been struggling with disk performance issues on my media production rig for some time, but it was working, so I basically just dealt with it. Search indexing and saving files would slow ...