File Systems (or filesystems) A file system is the specification of how files in a computer should be logically stored, named and organized. File systems present to users a human-readable format of data organization in the computer, where each file is a discreet unit of data. File systems present ...
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Is this valid JFS partition?
My teacher gave my his laptop (with Fedora 16 on it) and compact flash card with data. He wants to have access to files on card, but he couldn't get access to it. The problem is Linux doesn't know ...
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Access Windows 7 files from Windows 8?
I just installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview on a second partition on my main disk.
Now, When I try to navigate to "Win7-Partition:\Users\MyName\" from the Windows 8 side, the operation never ...
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64 bit file system on Unix
Is the file structure on a 64 bit OS different than the structure on the same OS that is 32 bit? I know this might be dependent on the OS, but I saw a post that the files were different.
As a ...
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Proving file creation dates
Is it possible to fake or manipulate creation dates ? And if so, how can I "prove" that the files really are that old ?
Luckily, I stored my project on GitHub, whick confirmed the fact that the files ...
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Is it preferable to run an application install locally or over network?
I have an application that I want to install and the installation file is on a network location on our LAN. There are several users who also need to run this installation.
Is it better for me to ...
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How can I see what an executable file is writing to disk and to the registry? [closed]
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Looking for an program installer monitor or recorder
What software can be used in order to "record" all the files written to the disk and registry entries beeing ...
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Which filesystems has first class support on both Linux and Mac OS X [closed]
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Which file system to use in between OSX and Linux
I'm replacing the optical drive on a Macbook with an HDD and plan to use half of the new drive for Linux. The other ...
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Could I add an item in `/etc/fstab` to bind an old directory with a new one?
I have a problem with binding two directories. The problem comes that storage on hard disk is almost run out and I install another disk moving files in ~/Documents/ into one folder of the new disk. I ...
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Mount -a on reboot after modifying /etc/fstab
I added the third line to /etc/fstab.
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs ...
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Mount XFS partition on OS X using OSXFUSE
How can I mount an XFS-partition on OS X 10.7 using OSXFUSE?
In their filesystem repository under filesystems-c/unixfs I have found minixfs. However, I'm not sure how to go about installing it and ...
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Is filesystem encryption any good if someone steals my computer while it's on?
I'm using Ubuntu 12, and during installation I have chosen to encrypt the disk and home directory.
I only introduce the disk password the first time I log in, so I guess the disk is not encrypted ...
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Linux: Giving a user read/write access to all files and directories
Is it possible in linux to give a user read/write access to all files and directories like root?
EDIT I have a special case. I need to create a folder structure on which I can grand a special user ...
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How can I delete a file with an invalid character in the name? (Win7)
I am trying to delete a file named "Kanno, Yoko - Where Does This Ocean Go?.mp3" from my hard drive in Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and it keeps telling me that it cannot because the file name is too long ...
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How to change the file system name
I have the device name /dev/something and would like of change to /dev/anotherthing. How to do in linux system?
e.g.
# fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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Recover partially download file auto deleted by Chrome
Where can I find partially completed download file (from chrome ) on my system as(chrome and chromium) it delete them in event of interruption (NET ISSUE).
I need the file so that I complete download ...
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Unknown undeleteable, unformattable partition
I had two partitions on my hard drive labeled as unknown in gParted that showed up out of nowhere. I use 3 OS's on my computer, Windows which I just recently deleted, Backtrack5, and Ubuntu 12.04 ...
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Newly formatted (NTFS) external hard drive already has 'Used space'. What determines the used space's amount? Is it correlated to the HD's capacity?
I just bought a new external hard drive (WD Elements - 1 TB). In a PC with Windows 7, I formatted it by Right-clicking the drive > Format (Quick Format - NTFS) before using it and, and then checked ...
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Does Linux support NTFS file system [closed]
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Is NTFS on Ubuntu stable?
Does Linux (Fedora + Ubuntu) support NTFS file-system. They are known to support ext file system. I want to have same file system for both the ...
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Make a file non-deletable in USB
Somebody used my USB drive and upon returning it to me, I found a autorun.inf that is undeletable.
I tried changing it's file attribute which is only H (not even set as a system file) but it keeps on ...
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Bluetooth filesystem sync?
Does such software exist?
What I'd like to do is keep a set of files updated between two machines using bluetooth so that I may edit them on both computers, and changes get automatically ...
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Why is “sudo unmount” required for unmounting an sshfs-mount if it was mounted without sudo privilges?
I have an sshfs FUSE filesystem mounted in ~/mountpoint. I tried umount mountpoint and diskutil unmount mountpoint (on a Mac here) and both failed. I used sshfs -o IdentityFile=<key> ...
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Does SSHFS copy the files locally all at once, or only when I cd into them?
If I sshfs an entire filesystem at the root directory, does that mean it will download the entire root directory? Is that how SSHFS works, it physicallly downloads the whole thing? Or does it fetch ...
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When I order files by an unusual meta column, does the computer read headers of the files or just a structured list like a data table?
Is there a file system which will reduce the need for indexing files and saves the meta headers automatically on the disk? It would work like a hardware acceleration for indexing all files for some ...
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is there a way to read the cumulative size of all files in a folder?
I want to read the size of a folder from the command line. ls -lh shows all folders as being 4k, which presumably is the size of the footprint of the folder itself, rather than the contained files. ...
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Versioning file server
Looking for a virtual filesystem server (like ftp or sshd or NFS, samba) with the following features:
open-source
cross platform server (Linux/Windows/OSX)
linear file versioning (don't need to have ...
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Any ideas why I'm getting a delay after clicking “Save as” or “Download” in Google Chrome
I'm running Google Chrome. When I do anything that'll save a file to my local filesystem - right-click and "Save As", click a download link, save an image - nothing happens for a good 20-30 seconds, ...
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is there a better way to move folders up a directory than mv?
I downloaded a rather large filestructure (>100GB) to a subfolder of my root directory, lets call it /folder. The problem is, I accidentally copied it into a subfolder of that folder, rather than ...
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CentOS Filesystem EXT3-fs read-only randomly
I have 2x1.5tb drives on a 3ware RAID controller in RAID1. Last week our server started having issues noticed by our customers being unable to access their websites, the file system unmounts then ...
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Filesystem for Linux OS on cheap thumb-drives (liveusb)
Simple version: what filesystem (or more complex setup, perhaps) is best for use on a liveusb system?
LiveUSB system with filesystem directly on the drive, not one with compressed system image a-la ...
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force upperdir overlayfs to re reread/reload lowerdir
am having the following problem with an overlayfs: I can mount an overlayfs fine using the following line in my etc/fstab
none /home/student overlayfs ...
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How far along is btrfs? [closed]
I have seen a lot of stuff recently talking about BTRFS.
So things I had read said btrfs is not ready for production, others said it is great as long as you don't need some of the missing features ...
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Windows 7 file permissions
I am trying to move a file from a usb stick to a folder on my desktop.
I have changed the various properties on it and its subfolder items and taken ownership of it. I have added full permissions to ...
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Change OS X partition to Mac OS Extended Journaled without reformatting?
I have a machine running OS X 10.5.8, and am upgrading it to Snow Leopard, and then Lion. Snow Leopard requires a Journaled partition, but the partition the OS is running on now is Mac OS Extended — ...
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How can I organise files in a disconnected manner?
I know that cloud and syncing solutions are popular now, but I've got a scenario where I would like to work with files in a disconnected manner (i.e. without a network connection back to the computer ...
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'cache swap' filesystem for SSD/HDD combo?
As we all know, Solid State Drives (SSD) are expensive ($/Gb) but they are quick to access. I'm wondering if there exists a sort of software-kernel-level 'cache swap' filesystem technology; the idea ...
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Auto mounting s3fs (fuse) filesystem on OS X
I want to use rsync to backup my data to Amazon's S3 bucket. I found s3fs, a fuse based filesystem which allows me to mount my bucket as a filesystem. I use it with fuse4x.
If I want to mount it on ...
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External HDD and NAS File system (Linux/Mac/Win 7 Home Network)
I have a HP Microserver that I want to use primarily as a file server (music, movies etc.) in a home network that has Win 7 laptops, Ubuntu/Mint laptops and a new addition of a Mac Mini. I have a ...
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Virtualbox shared folder reading problems from Apache
I have a problem with files on a mounted share inside a Virtualbox machine.
The problem is that even though I can see the content of the files fine enough from the shell, the same files turn out ...
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Tool for managing file routing on Windows XP
I would like to be able to see when a file is created/read/edited, and be able to reroute thoughs events to a new location the next time that transaction is executed to another local file path.
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Is it best to reformat the hard drive to exFAT using 512kb chunk, or smaller or bigger chunks?
I can reformat a brand new 2TB WD Passport drive to exFAT, with choice of many "Allocation Unit Size":
128kb
256kb
512kb
1024kb
4096kb
16384kb
32768kb
which one is best if this drive is mainly used ...
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Is it best to reformat our external Hard drive to exFAT for compatibility with Mac?
I just got one of those Western Digital 2TB Passport external hard drive. Is it true that if I want the iMac running Lion on it to be able to read and write any files on the drive, and to have files ...
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Access files from Windows installation in CentOS
I have installed CentOS on my Windows computer.
How can I access my Windows files from CentOS?
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Ubuntu Server filesystem usage
df says my /dev/sda1 filesystem is almost full:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 8256952 7616516 221008 98% /
none ...
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AIX what exactly is file system cache?
What exactly is FS cache or file system cache in AIX.
Most of the time our performance charts show that main memory is mainly allocated for FS cache. Is this frequently read file data? or is this ...
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Why doesn't num blocks times block size match file size?
Here is what I get when I issue stat command for a file in my linux:
yasar@yasar-laptop ~/myscripts/sysprog $ LC_ALL=C stat error.c
File: 'error.c'
Size: 184 Blocks: 8 IO Block: ...
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does Windows OS or other known software, other than shredder, write data to disk outside of file system protocol?
As far as I understand it is possible to write directly to disk on Windows, bypassing the file system, and presumably this is precisely what disk shredder software does in order to shred empty space ...
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Improve Windows file system performance by RAM
I have 3gb of ram idling according to taskmanager. Is it possible to improve windows file system by telling it to use more ram?
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New files Log monitoring?
I want to install (setup.exe) a software but before I go this, before I do this I want to know where it will install and what it will be changed.
Is there a software log new files and change?
Also ...
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what is the difference between .swp and .swpx files in fuse? what is each one them used for?
when I tried to print the paths while doing write in fuse. I could see paths of file with .swp and .swpx extensions. what are they?
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NTFS partition accidentally turned into a unknown filesystem type
I had an XP partition set as my boot partition, set to the left of my Windows 7 partition. I deleted the XP partition and expanded the 7 partition to the left. I tried to restore the MBR using ms-sys ...
