Thoughts on data safety

Posted on 17 Oct at 08:02 PM by Janek Bevendorff | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (2)

Data safety is very important but often neglected. How important keeping one's data safe really is gets often recognized when disasters already happened. This article covers a few ideas how to prevent data loss even if your hard drive crashes or your house is on fire.

What Ext can do for you

Posted on 15 Aug at 05:00 PM by Janek Bevendorff | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

The Linux Extended File System (Ext) originally invented in 1992 was the first generation of the well known Linux default file system. Ext is inspired by the Unix File System (UFS) and now exists in the fourth generation which is Ext4. As the first blog entry here on refining-linux.org I'll be showing you some of the great features of Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4!