It's a newer CDROM filesystem standard that's required for DVD roms. It's meant to be a replacement for the ISO9660 filesystem used on today's CDROMs, but the immediate impact for most will be DVD.

Software Architects, a supplier of disk drive utilities that use the Universal Disk Format (UDF), has released DVD-RAM TuneUp! 3.2 for the Mac. The new version — a combination of two products, DVD-RAM ...

A format for CD-RW and DVD+RW optical discs. Introduced by Microsoft in 1999, the "MRW" or "CD-MRW" format enables files to be stored like hard drives. Mount Rainier supports the UDF file system and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linux provides quite a few commands to look into file system types. Here's a look at the various file system types used by Linux systems and the commands that will identify them. Linux systems use a ...