What do these file system and directory names tell us about the intended content? To best understand why particular conventions were adopted, hark back to the early days of Unix and how the ...

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.

Thinkstock Samba Another option for moving files between Unix and Windows systems it to make a drive or folder available by “sharing” it. Both Unix and Windows have commands for this. To share ...

For UNIX System Services files that are created by SAS, the file mode for new files is "-rw-rw-rw-"; however, this mode is modified by the current file-mode creation mask.

Unix_File_System_With_GUI This project is a simulation of a Unix-style file system implemented in C++. It allows users to interact with a virtual file system, performing various operations such as ...

Unix_File_System_With_GUI This project is a simulation of a Unix-style file system implemented in C++. It allows users to interact with a virtual file system, performing various operations such as ...

All files on a Unix system are accessed via a path that starts with / (the root directory), and you can mount different hard drives at different points in the file system according to your needs.

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.

One of the problems that seems to plague nearly all file systems — Unix and others — is the continuous buildup of files. Almost no one takes the time to clean out files that they no longer use ...