Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. Files are the lifeblood of modern business. They carry contracts, ...

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 command ...

Although the World Wide Web is a global network, it remains predominantly centralized in terms of data storage. Servers, whether physical or virtual, are housed in large server farms or cloud ...

Managing data storage is ever more complex. IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage, storage area networks, network attached storage and cloud storage volumes. They might be ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...

This research was completed in 2023 and received partial funding from US National Science Foundation, Cyber Florida, and Google ASPIRE. The views expressed are those of the author only, not of the ...

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 /etc/fstab file is ...

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

An update was added to the end of the article explaining that any Authenticode-signed file, including executables, can be modified to bypass warnings. A new Windows zero-day allows threat actors to ...