You are not alone. In fact, I was pretty confused by file permissions for a long time, but it’s actually very simple! Here’s why you should care, and how to understand the permissions that keep your ...

One of our older, more microsoft hating members of staff was having a discussion with the microft members of staff, saying how much permissions in the windows world aren't as advanced as unix file ...

Wired's newly-revamped Webmonkey site has an informative guide on seeing, changing, and understanding file permissions in Unix-like systems. These are the kind of operations and syntax that can often ...

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...

Is there a way to make a file "append only"? I've lost some logfiles that got overwritten when I wanted them just to be appended. I know with NTFS there are detailed permissions that can be set, but ...

A file system provides attributes for files and directories on an operating system to help you determine which users on your computer can read, modify, or execute the contents of its files and ...

People who have had bad experiences on Windows disks that performed poorly after they had become very fragmented often wonder if they need to apply some kind of periodic analysis and defragmentation ...