When you purchase a new storage drive, it may tell you it needs reformatting, but which format is best? The main options for removable drives and memory cards these days are FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS, ...

File syncing and storage services, also known as cloud storage services, offer major convenience. They let you back up and access your data—documents, photos, video, and other file types—on any ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

I'll be installing Linux soon on my W2k box (I'll be dual booting) and I'll need to access a data partition from both OSes.<P>What's the best file system for that partition?<P>FWIW, I'll be reading ...

Here's what ZFS is all about—and why I'd love it if it were simpler to use. ZFS, originally an acronym for Zettabyte File System, is an advanced, combined file system and logical volume manager ...

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...