Ctrl+Shift+M sorts by the %MEM column, and Shift+P sorts by the %CPU column. Sorting a column twice reverses the sort order.

One of the first things Linux users need to learn is how to move around the Linux file system and, eventually, how to make it even easier to move around the file system. This post describes both ...

An unlinked file isn't actually deleted until the last open process using it finishes. If the system crashes before the delete operation is complete, the journal will give a consistent file system, ...

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 ...

You’ve heard all about the Windows cleaning tools — on every level. What you haven’t heard of nearly as much are tools to help clean up the Linux file system.

The following tutorial will compare the Linux operating system to Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows vs. Linux File System. Microsoft Windows files are stored on different data drives (C: D: E:). On ...

When Apple was about to introduce Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, John Siracusa wrote in the summer of 2006 about how a new file system should be coming to Macs (which it did, 11 years later ...

Open-source local file systems, such as Linux Ext4, XFS, and Btrfs, remain a critical component in the world of modern storage. For example, many recent distributed file systems, such as Google ...