The default file system in Windows is NTFS, and the default file system in Ubuntu Linux is EXT4. The purpose of today’s 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux post is to try and understand what the difference is, ...

Ext4 Filesystem ===== This is a development version of the ext4 filesystem, an advanced level of the ext3 filesystem which incorporates scalability and reliability enhancements for supporting large ...

Ok I'm going to be formatting the two 5Tb partitions and I'm going to use ext4 this time as it better supports large file systems. I'm going to be storing mainly photos and I know there are several ...

Linux server admins must think carefully about which file system to choose -- XFS or ext4 -- based on each device's role and storage requirements. Desktop deployment and support personnel may find a ...

If you've been running Linux for a while, you're probably using the now slightly-outdated EXT2 or EXT3 file system. Technology blog Ghacks has a guide to converting those formats to the newer, faster, ...

I'm not the admin on the box, just the user, but our admin team are more Windows guys. I was running a quick loop over a set of file in a 1087 file directory on a 4xRAID 0 array formatted ext4 when ...

Any filesystem designed for use with rotating media must pay careful attention to the layout of files on the disk. If a file's blocks can be placed sequentially on the device, they can be read or ...

Dropbox has announced that starting on November 7th 2018, only the ext4 file system will be supported in Linux for synchronizing folders in the Dropbox desktop app. Those Linux users who have synch on ...