If you're new to Linux, knowing how the file system is laid out will alleviate some confusion.

The setup: I have a directory. In this directory is a series of subdirectories. In each subdirectory are four or five text files. The files are all named identically from directory to directory; i ...

This piece is a demonstration of one means of setting up file-level encryption which is widely available for Linux desktop users. To offer a similar encryption scheme to as many users as possible, ...

Unlike some other filesystems (like FAT, which uses a file allocation table), Linux filesystems use inodes to store metadata and pointers to data blocks, allowing efficient and flexible file ...