We continue coverage of a widespread issue where optical media (CDs or DVDs) fail to mount -- primarily with the Pioneer 106D drive mechanism used on several PowerMac G5s and other models. To recap: ...

I'm posting this link here because I've had no ends of networking pains in the ass here at our smallish all-Mac office. These have mostly come about from not having a proper server on the network, and ...

Many users are reporting problems with mounting Disk Copy image files (img, dmg, or smi) in Mac OS X. The most common symptoms are messages that say either "Unknown error: 192" or that it cannot read ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

There are a number of Linux commands that will display file system types along with the file system names, mount points and such. Some will also display sizes and available disk space. The df command ...

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...

When Apple was about to introduce Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, John Siracusa wrote in the summer of 2006 about how a new file system should be coming to Macs (which it did, 11 years later). The ...

Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...