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Anatomy of a File System

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This technical reference explains the ins and outs of the NTFS file system. It would be nice to see similar on the various others out there.
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Mint uses ext3 and ext4 file systems. This is useful
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/witchel/ ... entals.pdf
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lsemmens wrote: Thu Mar 29, 2018 6:11 am This technical reference explains the ins and outs of the NTFS file system. It would be nice to see similar on the various others out there.
Look around on these sites for filesystems.

Kernel.org: filesystems online or install the package "linux-doc" for a local read. Use zless to read.
Example: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/filesystems/ext3.txt.gz

https://wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
https://medium.com/@metebalci/a-minimum ... a5efac2c1f
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/libr ... ilesystem/

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How Linux Works - Free chapter download is on filesystems :-)
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I think the OP wants a similarly organized and written resource. No Linux distro has anything like that. Microsoft employs over 10,000 people just to test all the obscure hardware configurations out there. The open source GNU/Linux community just can't compete with that. Get used to digging for info.
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Hoser Rob wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:51 am I think the OP wants a similarly organized and written resource. No Linux distro has anything like that. Microsoft employs over 10,000 people just to test all the obscure hardware configurations out there. The open source GNU/Linux community just can't compete with that. Get used to digging for info.
I seriously doubt it. Or maybe none of those 10,000 people own an AMD machine. Last January, in their haste to patch Windows 10 for Spectre/Meltdown, MS released an update (KB4056892) that rendered a large number of machines with AMD processors unbootable. https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-1 ... e-amd-pcs/

MS doesn't employ thousands of people for the purpose of quality assurance. Instead, they task their own developers to perform quality assurance on the code they themselves have written and use their customer base as beta testers. From the following link: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2 ... st-it.html

"Although that omission may not be significant, Windows customers have been griping for months about the quality of Microsoft's updates, many of which have been problem-filled and some of which have had to be pulled because of those problems. Some analysts and users have connected the dots, arguing that after Microsoft's massive layoffs in mid-2014, when the company's software testing groups were especially hard hit, the quality of its updates declined."

"Microsoft fired all those testers last year," pointed out Wes Miller, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, in a Friday interview. "Now consumers are the testers."
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Same with new computers. They don't do burn-in anymore...YOU do. Then if something fails they either send out a technician to put a new component into your computer, usually, another part that failed and then repaired, and hence "burned in", or send you a box and then they send you a replacement unit.
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One thing I would suggest, create a partition as a 50G partition as /. Partition the rest as /Home. IF the system fails, reinstall and use the exact same username and all your 'stuff' comes back to you.
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I posted as a point of interest, not for any other reason. I agree M$, Will be responsible for more people switching to Linux than any advertising that we could do. :D
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lsemmens wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:11 pm I posted as a point of interest, not for any other reason. I agree M$, Will be responsible for more people switching to Linux than any advertising that we could do. :D
:lol: Indeed.

However, most people don't care what info someone gathers from them; like all the people on FaceBook that were appalled that their info was used.
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One thing I would suggest, create a partition as a 50G partition as /. Partition the rest as /Home. IF the system fails, reinstall and use the exact same username and all your 'stuff' comes back to you.
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