A file system is the specification of how files in a computer should be stored, named and organized. This tag should be used for generic file system questions. For specific file system questions (FAT, NTFS, ext4, ...) use the appropriate tag instead.
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How do I read the Ext4 partition of my SD card on Windows?
I have a 32 GB SD card with one FAT32 partition and one Ext4 partition. If I mount the SD card to the computer I can read the FAT32 partition in Windows just fine. But how do I read the Ext4 ...
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NFS: too many levels of symbolic links. How to find and fix?
wim@wim-desktop:/media/data/dots/manouche$ ls > /dev/null
ls: reading directory .: Too many levels of symbolic links
wim@wim-desktop:/media/data/dots/manouche$ find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \;
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Lots of empty folders on a system. (At what point) is this bad?
I see lots of questions about how to remove empty folders, what certain empty folders are, and why they appear, but it seems to be taken for granted that you want to avoid it.
Is it really such a ...
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Can I create a symlink or similar that returns a random file from a set every time?
Say I have files foo-a.wav, foo-b.wav and foo-c.wav on disk.
I have a piece of software whose interface allows me to enter the name of a single sound file; every time a certain feature of that ...
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Win7 makes my fat32 fs corrupt when i create some files in linux, in dual boot environment
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I setup a dual boot environment with linux 3.9.2 and win7.
I used a fat32 partition to share some files between them.
After booting into linux, create/delete some files and then switch back to ...
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What is the “Default” file system in Windows Format wizard?
On the Windows 7 Format wizard, there is always a file system that is noted as (Default).
Why is there a default file system? What is it exactly?
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Cross-platform usable filesystem with large file support
What is the best filesystem to use cross-platform (Linux, Windows, OS X) which supports disk sizes of at least 2TB and file sizes >4GB?
I'm planning to use it on a USB drive on different computers.
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What is the best filesystem for an external USB drive - 2 - 3 TB shared between OSX/Windows/Linux? [duplicate]
I have been using NTFS, but I recently took a drive which is normally attached to a Mac mini running Lion (using Paragon NTFS) and attached it to Windows 7 because the drive was disconnecting ...
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Minimum volume size for fat12
I am searching for the answer, what is the theoretical minimum size for a FAT12 volume?
There is only requirements that embedded and normal systems should recognize it on a pen drive as legal file ...
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Cloning flash drive while preserving empty space
I'm working with an industrial PC running Windows XP embedded.
The PC has a 2GB compact flash memory which acts as main drive.
I would like to clone the 2GB flash memory to a card with 8GB space.
How ...
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USB Stick, how to minimize risk of data corruption or data loss
I have encountered several USB sticks with a corrupted filesystem in only 2 years. In a Windows-only environment (Vista and newer), what can be done to reduce the chance of filesystem corruption and ...
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How to use tunefs
Introduction:
I'm planning a performance-oriented clean install of OS X (10.6) on my Mac and I've decided (among other things) to split the hard drive into multiple partitions.
Two of them will be ...
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Version control, file history and versioning for Microsoft Windows 7?
What Software allows me to go into the folder properties and enable file versioning / a file history, so that any overwrite can be undone?
Windows Vista and beyond do provide simple versioning ...
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Windows 7: file system delays
Recently my Windows 7 machine has been experiencing delays when I manually create folders, rename files, move files and so on.
For example, if I double click on a folder, and within that window: ...
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View file system inode tree / table of contents via Linux CLI?
Does anyone know of a good file system exploration tool? Granted I can traverse directories and stuff in a shell, but I'd like something more particular to the underlying file system structure - ...
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How is TrueCrypt in-place system drive encryption implemented?
TrueCrypt supports encrypting a system partition while operating system is running.
From the docs:
Note that TrueCrypt can encrypt an existing unencrypted system
partition/drive in-place while ...
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How can the recycle bin hold multiple files with the same name? [duplicate]
Under Windows if I create a file and delete it, than recreate the exact copy of the file in the same place and delete it too, than I will have 2 identical files in the recycle bin with the same name. ...
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How to mount an NTFS filesystem, allowing all users full access?
How could I mount an NTFS filesystem in a way that would allow all users full access to it? If I use sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/drive, then only the root user can use it. It won't let me ...
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I have an ext3 iso disk image. Can I use it and write it to a ext4 partition?
Is it possible to do so ?
I am migrating to EXT4 because of the SSD drive that has TRIM funtion. I have to have ext4 partion.
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How to reduce chance of hard disk failure? [closed]
Recently I found a question "which file system techniques can reduce chance of disk failure?" But I did not found an answer. The only things that I could suggest is using RAID and protect power level. ...
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Windows Built In FS Conversion tool?
Can I use convert.exe to convert my ExFat drive (Which is 3TB and not the boot drive, if that matters) to NTFS?
I'm in Windows 8, and I SERIOUSLY need to convert my drive, preferably without data ...
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Use hard disks with different file system encoding on the same Linux machine, feasible?
As we know, Linux and Unix style filesystems store file name as byte stream, as apposed to Unicode streams on Windows NTFS/FAT.
So there is the question. If I get an old hard disk(from around 2002) ...
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Virtual Filesystem that hides file location and moves items around
I have a media box and a NAS. At the moment I would like to have most of the videos that I would like to watch on the media box. [For performance reasons] All of the other videos I would like to ...
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discover the directory that prevents a file from being read in linux
i'm getting a permission denied for a user in a really long path.
$ sudo sudo -u user cat /l/o/n/g/path/file
Permission denied
i'm pretty sure path and file have permissions for that user. Is there ...
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Why can Linux systems sometime recover data Windows can't? Any concrete reasons?
Background:
Earlier this year I had a problem with a SSD drive that Windows would recognize anymore. But eventually a bootable Parted Magic 2012-10-10 did the trick. See this solved thread. One ...
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where does boundary of file system lie in Linux?
I am curious that hard link cannot cross the boundary of file system. But where exactly is the boundary? I know hard disk and flash disk are two file systems; /home and /var are two file systems. But ...
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Looking for an alternative to 'pstat' (for getting the count of active vnodes)
I know that on earlier version of Mac OS X there was a bundled pstat shell command that could be used to retrieve some information about the vnode's count.
Do you know an alternative that may works ...
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Write but not read permission on a file in linux
Is it possible to have write but not read permission on a file in Linux?
What about execute but not read and write permission?
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Lost files only appear in chkdsk statistics
I'm expreriencing a strange problem with an external SD card which has been mistakenly pulled out from the pc reader. About half of the files seem to have been lost because they do not appear in the ...
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So many loop devices created when trying to mount squashfs
I am trying to mount, a squashfs file image on an embedded system (linux/busybox). But after some time, I am getting the error "mount: can't setup loop device: No space left on device" . When ...
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Changing max inode count number in ext3 filesystem in Cent OS
Assuming that I use ext3 filesystem in Cent OS:
Can I increase the number of Free Inodes in the filesystem? If Yes how?
When I run
tune2fs -l /dev/sda1
it got these inodes statistics:
Filesystem ...
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Slower file create on faster server. Why? [closed]
I have two servers. The old one has 24GB RAM, i7-950 @ 3,0Ghz, 2x 1,5TB SATA HDD (ST31500341AS).
The new one has 32GB RAM, i7-3770 @ 3,4GHz, 2x 3,0TB SATA HDD (ST3000DM001-9YN166).
Now I noticed, ...
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du which counts number of files/directories rather than size
I am trying to clean up a hard drive which has all kinds of crap on it accumulated over the years. du has helped reduce disk usage, but the whole thing is still unwieldily not due to the total size, ...
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Why does NTFS disallow the use of trailing periods in directory names? [closed]
On Linux, I can have a folder named temp..
If I try to do a mkdir temp. on a Windows machine, the trailing period is truncated.
If I try to sync a directory from Linux to Windows that has a trailing ...
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virtual filesystems appear to be limited on win32 build of Midnight Commander
I installed Midnight Commander 4.8.7 on my windows machine at work.
2 of the features that I would love to use are the virtual filesystems for zip files and ssh.
But the only virtual filesystem that ...
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What server file system should I use for a small shop?
We are a company, where we have around 10 people working from OSX with images, PSDs, indesign and other graphic jobs. They would like to read and write from a network share, so all the guys have the ...
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Unable to create folder/file on root in spite of free space
Since some time I am unable to create file/folder on root.
I always log in as root and was able to work properly.
My experience is as follows:
# pwd
/root
# mkdir xcxcx
mkdir: cannot create ...
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Propagate file change to text editor
I'm pretty good at programming (made a few apps and done a few internships), but really don't have much experience dealing with the nit & gritty workings of text editors/file systems. Here's some ...
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What exactly happens when you “mount” a drive?
What underlying things happen when you mount a drive. Even when a drive isnt mounted, it is visible to the computer (such as sudo fdisk -l / diskutil -list). When a drive is mounted, is all that is ...
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Linux Fuse module - determine supported file systems
Wondering how you can determine what filesystems are supported via FUSE on a Linux system? I ask as the performance of any NTFS formatted USB HDD I attach to my Netgear DGN2200v3 is painful and write ...
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Linux: Contents of “global” folder synced to other folders automatically
I have a directory that has 3 sub directories.
"global_plugins", "foo", and "bar"
foo and bar both have a subfolder called "plugins".
I want the content of "global_plugins" to appear in plugins, on ...
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How to convert file back to directory
My coworker, using OSX, uploaded a .xcappdata file to Asana. This "file" is actually a directory that OSX likes to treat like a file (so many ways I hate Apple). For some reason, Safari allowed this ...
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How to align Linux disk partitions without data loss?
As you know, 512B sectors is still used in file systems of most current Linux distributions while the hardware, i.e. physical disks are typically made with 4K sectors. The misalignment of logical file ...
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How are ties broken in AuFS with the top-down-parent file creation policy?
The AuFS manual says:
Policies for Creating
create=tdp | top−down−parent
Selects the highest writable branch where the parent dir exists. If
the parent dir does not exist on a writable branch, ...
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How to resolve daylight saving time discrepancy when copying files from camera to HDD?
When copying files from the SDHC card of the camera to a local HDD for storage, I find that sometimes the modified time of files is a hour different. I believe this is because the SDHC card uses ...
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Change the filestructure in linux
I am currently using manjaro and I have the following problem.
My root partition is 7gb and my home partition is 100gb big. Now packages always get installed on the root partition.
I tried to resize ...
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mkfs destroys the partition table of disk images?
the problem
it seems mkfs destroys the partition table of disk images
event sequence to document the behavior
parallels@ubuntu:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=1M count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 ...
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Time machine: backup in case-sensitive, new installation is case-insensitive
My Time Machine backup is case-sensitive. I just upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion by doing a clean installation. I used a case-insensitive file system.
Installation / Migration Assistant can't ...
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Recover File System
I was recovering my windows 8. During recovery system shut due to power failure. Next time when I start windows 8 and try to open the D: drive then windows prompt me to format drive if I cancel prompt ...
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Getting date of last change as a cell value in Open Office Calc
I have a few Open Office spreadsheet files (let us call them source files), each containing the financial info of a particular office of ours. I also have a summary spreadsheet, that reads some key ...
