While today’s Unix systems primarily store configuration files and system start-up files in /etc, the focus in those early days seems to have been on the characterization of these files as being ...

IBM's UNIX System Services implements a directory-based file system that is very similar to the file systems used in UNIX. The SAS System under OS/390 enables you to read and write UNIX System ...

While you’re unlikely to see many Unix systems with fragmentation reaching higher than 5%, it’s good to know what you can do to defragment a file system if and when you run into this situation.

[1984 TOCS] FFS: A Fast File System for UNIX. [PDF] [1986 USENIX Summer] Vnodes: An Architecture for Multiple File System Types in Sun UNIX. [PDF] [1991 USENIX Winter] Extent−like Performance from a ...

People who used UNIX or VMS in the '80s were already familiar with file system permissions, but PCs were just getting to that point. (In my opinion, the DOS attrib command doesn't count.) ...

This repository contains a C++ project that simulates a simple UNIX-like filesystem. The project is part of an OOP345 workshop exercise and demonstrates the use of polymorphism, STL containers, ...

HP announced Monday it is letting its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System source code run free in the Linux community. Access to this code will provide capabilities that increase uptime, enhance security ...

These files or directories typically contain configuration information or log files for the Unix system. The .bash_history file, for example, logs all the commands you enter on the command line.

There are many ways to move files between Unix and Windows. In my mind, they fall into three categories — secure copy (let’s not even think about ftp), shared drives, and file synchronization.

Getting help with a Unix application or process can be more difficult than in a Windows environment. Unix documentation can be long-winded, difficult to read or even non-existent, and the system's ...