The btrfsck command is a filesystem-check command like fsck, but it works with the btrfs file system. First a little bit about btrfs. As the name implies, btrfs uses a B-tree data structure that is ...

Linux provides quite a few commands to look into file system types. Here's a look at the various file system types used by Linux systems and the commands that will identify them. Linux systems use a ...

In my first post on this subject, Btrfs basics, I discussed how to create a simple btrfs filesystem, or a complete btrfs Linux system. The information and examples in that post are going to be ...

When Windows experiences stability issues or when certain features just don't seem to work correctly, the problem can sometimes be attributed to missing system files or system files of an incorrect ...

Triggering scripts with incron and systemd. It is, at times, important to know when things change in the Linux OS. The uses to which systems are placed often include high-priority data that must be ...

I have a TB of h/w raid which crashed over the weekend (the server did, I mean !1) when I left some processes to run in the weekend. Now the only option left was a reboot which I did. Now its taking ...