If you're coming from Windows, the Linux file system structure can seem particularly alien. The C:\ drive and drive letters ...

Reverse engineering is one of the skills necessary on many Linux software projects, because many file formats have no open specifications. Even if we have a specification, we will probably have to ...

The btrfsck command is a filesystem-check command like fsck, but it works with the btrfs file system. First a little bit about btrfs. As the name implies, btrfs uses a B-tree data structure that is ...

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