New File Systems for Linux

XFS is an open source high-performance journaling filesystem that has been designed especially for GNU/Linux operating systems, combining full 64-bit addressing, algoritms and scalable structures with advanced journaling technology.Features of the XFS...

E2fsprogs (also known as the Ext2 Filesystem Utilities) is an open source software that provides Linux users with a neat collection of command-line utilities for manipulating all types of EXT filesystem under any Linux-based operating system. Comprises of...

gvfs is an open source and completely free software project that implements a Virtual File System (VFS) for the GNOME desktop environment. It is mainly used to display the progress of file transfers under GNOME, as well as to communicate to external...

GNU Parted is an open source command-line software that can be used to resize, destroy, copy, create, and check hard disk (HDD) partitions, and the file systems on them.GNU Parted is useful if you want to create free space for new operating systems,...

Btrfs is an open source Copy-on-Write file system designed especially for Linux operating system and aimed at implementing advanced features, while focusing on easy administration, repair, and fault tolerance. Features of the Btrfs filesystem Initially...

ReiserFSprogs is an open source command-line software that includes various utilities to manage and configure a ReiserFS file system on Linux distributions.The Reiserfs project is a file system based on balanced tree algorithms.What is new in this...

GlusterFS is a free, portable, open source command-line software, a scale-out, poly-protocol and unified filesystem that contains clustered file storage and can easily be scaled to petabytes. It is a programmable system. The program is very easy to setup...

cryptmount is an open source and freely distributed command-line software implemented in C and designed to be used on any GNU/Linux operating system for easy and quick mounting of encrypted filesystems. Features at a glance The software has been...

dosfstools is an open source and free collection of command-line utilities that allow users to easily and quickly create, label and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on GNU/Linux operating systems. At the moment, it comprises of the mkfs.fat, which is also...

FileSystem Investigator is a platform independent file system viewer and data extraction tool. It allows the user to:* View the contents of the target file system in a forensicly safe manner, bypassing the normal operating system mechanisms.* Extract...