If you’ve had your Linux installation for the longest time, sometimes you don’t really know what’s in there any more. Some of the problems we have:

Temporary files which never get cleaned up
Duplicate files. Maybe those we’ve downloaded before. But never removed after using them or maybe we copied them in another directory aside from the download directory. (This happens to me too. Especially when I get careless.)
Empty directories. We get lots of these when we move files around.

For us to manage our files, a tool such as FSLint would surely help.
This utility helps you search through your …read more

I’ve been wondering why my friends told me to use the ext3 filesystem when I installed Linux. At the time, I didn’t really understand. Why should I choose ext3? And why should you?

ext3 is stable
ext3 is sufficient for most desktop computing needs
ext3 is well-supported

I think that by default, most installaions of distributions use ext3. I guess that people sometimes get tempted to try out other file systems. I asked one of my friends about XFS and Reiser. He pointed out that the Reiser3 file system is deprecated according to its creator. I also …read more