NTFS, an acronym that stands for New Technology File System, is a file system first introduced by Microsoft in 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. The Windows Server line of operating systems ...

For the past few decades, Windows has used the NTFS file system as the default for fixed drives on a PC, and that has stuck all the way through today. In recent years, though, Microsoft has been ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

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 difference is, ...

The corruption-fixing tool in Windows 8 will be a lot less intrusive than in earlier versions of the operating system, Microsoft has promised. In a blog post explaining Windows 8's new NTFS health ...

The NTFS file system has allocation unit options that usually don't matter unless there is a limitation. Rick Vanover explains how this matters for large volumes. All Windows Server administrators ...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has agreed to include Paragon Software's NTFS3 kernel driver, giving the Linux kernel 5.15 release improved support for Microsoft's NTFS file system. But he also had some ...

On a Windows installation that uses the NTFS file system, there is an option in the Advanced Attributes section of the properties of a file to "Compress contents to save disk space." This NTFS file ...

HELSINKI, FINLAND – October 28, 2010 – Tuxera, the leading provider of interoperable file systems for Android, Linux, Mac and other platforms, today announced Tuxera File System Suite, the ...