Ext4 is essentially the default Linux filesystem, offering simplicity and compatibility, making it a solid choice for most ...

OK. This is not an argument, this is a question: if it's more robust than ext4, why are we using ext4 instead of XFS? In what circumstances is ext4 a better pick? In what circumstances is XFS a ...

The default file system in Windows is NTFS, and the default file system in Ubuntu Linux is EXT4. The purpose of today’s 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux post is to try and understand what the ...

Among the more popular filesystems are Ext4, Btrfs, XFS and ZFS. Each is widely used and offers some unique features and benefits. Metadata handling, journaling, and data integrity mechanisms are ...

More and more articles have been appearing on the EXT4 filesystem. In fact, the article that really caught my eye was one recently regarding the speed of using EXT4 on flash media. The benchmarks ...

Before we start, ensure never to write anything to EXT4 drives from Windows. EXT formats have their way of journaling and writing files into the system. If you find software that can do so ...

Technology blog Ghacks has a guide to converting those formats to the newer, faster, EXT4 without doing a clean install. While many of us prefer to do a reformat every year or two, if you don't ...

In some ways, btrfs simply seeks to supplant ext4, the default filesystem for most Linux distributions. But btrfs also aims to provide next-gen features that break the simple "filesystem" mold ...

Windows 10 now allows you to mount physical disks formatted using the Linux ext4 filesystem in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Linux filesystems, such as ext4, cannot be natively accessed in ...

But if you've been using Linux on a drive it could well be formatted in the Ext4 file system, which will make it completely impossible to use with Windows 10. As you can see here, we have an Ext4 ...