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. Using df -Th ...

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 key new WSL 2 feature that Microsoft is adding to support non-native Windows file systems is 'wsl --mount', which can be run from a PowerShell window with administrative privileges. This lets ...

Still, files and file-like things continue to be a big part of Linux and knowing how to manipulate links, mount directories, and use FUSE file systems can be a big help in administering and ...

One of the nice things about the Unix philosophy that Linux inherited is that the filesystem is very modular. That’s good, too, because a typical system might want a choice of filesystems lik… ...

Image: Funtap/Shutterstock SSHFS (SSH File System) makes it possible to mount remote filesystems via an SSH connection. SSHFS uses SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) to mount a remote directory on ...

Introduction File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This ...

DiskInternals Linux Reader is completely free and lets you access files from Ex2/3/4, UFS2, HFS, and ReiserFS/4 file systems. Apart from that, the tool can also read normal Windows-supported file ...

Jack Wallen introduces new Linux users to the mount command and how to use it to mount an external drive to the internal file system.