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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Compressed, read-write file system within a single file?
Is there any free Windows software which can create compressed archives, and subsequently mount them transparently (with write capability) onto another directory?
So far, the only such program I have ...
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SSHFS files from one server to another
I am trying to find the most secure way to transfer files from one server to another.
I have the following architecture:
Currently I am using the main user salamis in order to mount the ...
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How can I watch and log changes in my files?
Some of my files mysteriously and randomly changes. I would like to know what/who caused it. Is it possible to watch the files and log any changes (like time, content before/after, and if possible the ...
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Is there such a thing as an 'overlay mount', 'unionfs' or something similar in Windows?
Is it possible on Windows NT to have one directory sort of on top of another?
For example I have a directory like this:
C:\foo
It has a file in it called zoo.txt
I have another directory like ...
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varios files like `MbcYHt` all over my filesystem. where are they coming from?
Recently, I noted that some directories of my server are cluttered with files like MbcYHt, KZDmv_, K40bS9, etc., i.e. always a filename of size 6 which seems to be base64 encoded. The file size is ...
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How to convert mounted filesystem between codepages?
I have an external drive formatted in ext3 (basically) that previously was connected to a Linksys NLSU2 NAS device. Now the NSLU2 is broken and I have struggled to restore the files on the disk ...
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TrueCrypt - Large Files
I am encrypting a USB drive with TrueCrypt. It asks me if I am going to store files larger than 4gb:
Does this make any difference (apart from being able to store files larger than 4gb on the ...
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Why would a few files not let me copy/open/see properties?
I have a few files that I recently put into a folder on a network drive.
When I try to move any folder that contains them, or the files themselves, I get a warning dialog box that just says Cannot ...
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Why do two HDDs with the same information have different amounts of free space?
I have two of the exact same 2TB external HDDs. I copied a bunch of information to one of them and then copied everything from the first to the second HDD and now their sitting at different amounts ...
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USB pen drive Defragmentation [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I recover files from an USB flash drive?
My friend got a HP 16GB USB pen drive. The problem is, he defragmented it. Now when we are connecting that device, its ...
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windows folder with millions of files not responding
I am using windows 7 64-bit on q6600 with 4gb ram.
I have a folder with 2 million files which are 10kB on average.
windows 7 explorer stops responding when I open the folder.
how can I overcome ...
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Provoke corrupt ntfs file system or change it to a non accessible under windows
Is there a way to provoke a corrupt NTFS file system? Or how could I change the hdd's file system to any other (extX, raw) without data loss and accessible under linux but not under windows (well, at ...
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How can I format an SD card with a more robust Linux-usable filesystem with a specific cluster size for better write performace?
Goal: microSD card formatted...
for best write performance
for use only with embedded Linux
for better reliability (random power failures may occur)
using an 64kB cluster size
I'm using an 8GB ...
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How to fix partition table ordering?
I was going to install a completely fresh Linux distribution (Mageia) and I saw it as an opportunity to reorganize my partitions. I wanted all my non-Linux (Windows, restore, etc) partitions at the ...
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size 0byte file created on desktop
I have a empty folder by the name dev that was somehow created on my Windows7 laptop.It contains a file by the name nul.It has size 0 Bytes and both the folder and the file are hidden and read-only.I ...
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“unionfs”-like to merge filesystems by date instead of priority
do you know if there is something similar to unionfs that merges using file timestamps instead of device priority?
e.g.
having two "devices" with these files:
/harddisk1/file1.txt (timestamped ...
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Mac - Convert from Case-Sensitive to Case-Insensitive File System
So I just got my first Mac. After getting everything set up just the way I wanted it I decided to install Steam. When I opened Steam it said something about not supporting case-sensitive file ...
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Using a Distributed or Clustered File System on hosts for Virtual Instances - how?
I'm looking for a way to HOT back up (externally, via USB or LAN) my virtual machines while the machines are still active & running. I have number of challenges:
Dealing with large variety of ...
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Why don't I need to format and partition a CD or DVD before writing files to it?
Every time that I need to use a Flash USB drive, SD card or a HDD I must format it and create a partition before using it, such as NTFS, FAT, FAT32, etc. So this makes me raise some doubts:
Why ...
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Reduce Size Of Windows Folder in Windows 7
In normal PCs the Size of Windows Folder is 6 to 8 GB but in my Case its 25GB, How can i delete the unwanted files from Windows Folder which inturn optimise my C Drive size.
Thanks in Advance..
Mine ...
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How is the computer able to save things before it crashes?
I was under the impression that when a computer has crashed, something went wrong and it can't perform anymore.
I was wondering how is the computer able to save things before it crashes?
Is the ...
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Transfer admin privileges to another account
I have one admin account that's empty, and my account which is admin but barely has any privileges at all (can't save anything in Finder, etc.).
Could I somehow transfer my empty account's privileges ...
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Editing files in /var/www
I know that the owner of the files in /var/www must be www-data to properly run by apache. But when i run the chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www command i can't the php files in my editor.
How can i ...
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Get the newest file from non-current directory
I am having trouble executing a command which will give me the latest file from another directory.
Example:
ls -tr | tail -n 1 /prj/somedir/anotherdir/closerdir/targetdir
there is a list of ...
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Where are the “program files” in Debian?
I'm new to Linux and not really sure how file system works
When you install a program on windows it stores the programs files into the Program files folder and creates an icon in the start menu. If ...
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Can't run Katawa Shojo game, failes with “undefined symbol: SDL_RWFromFile” [closed]
I was trying to run the freeware game Katawa Shojo, and I cannot run the Katawa Shojo.sh file. One problem is that when the filepath has spaces (it comes in a folder 'Katawa Shojo' to start with) it ...
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Change permission of contents of My External Hard Disk?
Suddenly all of my contents residing on external hard disk has changed to read-only mode. Even though I am using Linux, I don't know how a virus have done this. I tried using "chmod", but still I am ...
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What is the behaviour of the NTFS installable filesystem driver when renaming files?
Revised:
What is the behaviour of the NTFS installable filesystem driver when renaming files on Windows NT 5.1?
Will the driver update last access time for any operation on the MFT entry for a file ...
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VMWare performance difference between using physical disk and virtual disk (VMFS)
Under Windows 7 with VMWare workstation 8, I want to run a Linux-VM with Ext3/4 as guest filesystem. I want the VM to have maximum read/write performance.
So I'm thinking about the best hard drive ...
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Fix bad sectors on flash memory
I have a flash disk possibly with bas sectors. When I try to copy data to it, it works fine until somewhere around 460Mb, and then the files start getting corrupted.
The corruption happens only when I ...
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What are some examples of “Appending Operations” as to “Random Writes Operations”?
I have just finished reading the Google File System (GFS) paper. The paper says that GFS is
optimized for appending operations rather than random writes.
Seeing that this characteristic is ...
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What software did distributed, encrypted and shared storage?
I'm trying to find the name of a project that I remember from a few years ago, but for some reason my google-foo is failing me. I'm wondering if any superuser's could help me.
The project was a ...
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How to access TFAT from Windows desktop?
I have a windows CE device which is using TFAT as a filesystem for its SDIO card.
I wish to read/write that SDIO card on Windows 7.
What's the best way to go about this?
Thanks.
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Linux FHS & Best Practices
I'm new to Linux (Ubuntu) and the FHS standard is a little confusing. Also, because its a standard and not a strictly-enforced system, I see many applications installing files to the various FHS ...
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Is there a backup tool which can work with different file systems?
I have a desktop running Ubuntu. My media collections go to an external HDD, plugged directly into the PC. This HDD is formatted with NTFS, so I can temporarily plug the HDD to a Windows PC and read ...
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USB Virus, “Program too big to fit in memory”?
I got an installer for a piece of software via usb from a friend.Now what was weird was that although my friend and I had the same OS, same brand of laptop and I had a newer version (though I don't ...
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Can I force Windows Explorer to use the UDF/ISO file system instead of HFS?
When inserting a DVD burned on a mac and containing multiple file systems (ISO, UDF, DFS+), my Windows Explorer on Windows XP shows only the DFS+ file system. I can view the file list, but not copy ...
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chmod always gets “permission denied”
I keep a large number of directories and files on a Seagate NAS server, which I access from a Apple laptops running OS 10.5.8 and 10.6.8 variously. The server share has CIFS, FTP, and NFS enabled, and ...
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Why does a journal filesystem need to check disk?
After I got the BSOD on my Windows 7 computer, I restarted my computer to find it asking me to do a disk check. I did other things in the meantime but it seemed like it took a few minutes.
If the ...
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Symbolic linking and shrinking available space
I symbolically linked two drives across a folder located in the program files folder of the C:\ directory. This folder is linked to a much larger/slower HDD. Windows is installed on a small SSD ...
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Unable to create filesystem on new partition - Amazon EC2 instance
I created a new partition /dev/xvda1p1 on linux amazon ami.
After that i am unable to create a filesystem.
What is the issue?
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/xvda1: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
255 heads, 63 ...
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unable to read the file because its encrypted by windows [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to restore encrypted files after reinstalling Windows XP?
The hard drive I was using before with Windows XP sp2 installed crashed yesterday, so I got a new hard ...
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How does cluster size affect NTFS compression ratio?
I read that NTFS compression needs a patition formatted with an allocation unit size <= 4KB.
How can the cluster size of a partition affect the ratio of NTFS compressed files? For example, a ...
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Is there a high-performance local area “file sharing” protocol?
It seems to me that most network "file sharing" protocols are one or more of old, slow, and insecure. The most used protocols seem to be SMB, NFS, and WebDAV.
I'm sitting here, looking at iTunes ...
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Making a directory on unix readable,writeable,executable by me and no one else?
What is the proper way to make a directory that I created and all of its contents readable/writeable/executable only by me, and no one else?
Is this sufficient:
chmod g-rx mydir/
this should make ...
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How did XCode/OSX do that? Moved an XCode project to another location. XCode automatically knew where it was located
Just a quick bit of background. I am a long time Windows, C# developer and for a new project for my employer, I've had to transition to OSX and begin learning iOS development. In other words, I'm ...
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How to reuse/extend etckeeper's metadata engine for git control of non-/etc filesystems, or extend git natively with said capability?
Overview + question
Want etckeeper-like filesystem metadata control for non-/etc, git-controlled directories. Home and web-app directories, among others, are classically sensitive to metadata (file ...
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How do you distinguish a directory, and it's contents in linux?
Let's say you have this directory tree
parent
-----child1
-----file0
-----grandchild1
-----file1
-----file2
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Format main OS hard drive with non-standard allocation unit size before restoring Ghost image
I want to try formatting my main internal hard drive with NTFS using an allocation unit size of 64 KB instead of the default 4KB.
Then I have a Windows 7 Ghost image that I will be restoring to the ...
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Linux - how to format multiple file systems within one file?
I need to create a disk image with two empty file systems. I have created it using
dd if=/dev/zero of=./disk.img bs=1MiB count=1024
Next, I have created 2 primary partitions using fdisk disk.img; ...
