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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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Can't successfully delete file on btrfs filesystem

I've got a 4 GB file in a BTRFS file system that just won't go away. I have deleted it multiple times, I've even echo'd to it, and it keeps coming back. The ls -l is: -rw-rw-r-- 1 mark mark 4072587264 ...
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Windows program for most opened folders?

I am planning to move to a new computer and want to locally back up my most-used folders, and leave the rest on the cloud. It would be great if a program has already been written for this, like the ...
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How to extract date from filename on Windows [closed]

I need to do hand formatting date values for some files. I have just extracted 6000 photos/videos from an application and they are all named following this structure, with different dates and times ...
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How to give administrator rights to the local user Windows 10 Pro?

Is there way to give local user rwx rights on Windows 10 Pro 20h1?I need to make user possible to execute only 1 file in user directory
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Any need nowadays to be concerned about the 260 character path limit for non-networked files? [closed]

For non-networked files, is there any need to take care nowadays about not exceeding the 260 character path limit? I am most interested in answers covering Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10, if possible. The ...
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How do you organize your file downloads? [closed]

Somewhat of an unconventional question on here, but I'm curious as to how you guys organize your files (and if there are any automated tools you use). Often times, I just end up keeping everything in ...
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What is the command to see what files in linux is currently being written or read?

Just like top command which tells what process is running in the system and what is it doing like which process is running and taking CPU. I want to know in the running system what currently the ...
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Can't create files with specific names in specific directories. "no space left on device"

I ran into problems with a proces that produces a huge amount of files within a subdirectory (potentially even going into the millions) following a very specific filename-scheme (e.g. something like ...
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File origin and log history

Before I start, English is not my primary language, so please excuse my lack of sentence structure and grammar. I am trying to find out where a .docx file originated from and what places it has been ...
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/boot partition full on Fedora

when I start system, I get an error message that /boot is full, also when I try dnf upgrade, I get a Transaction test error that says that kernel-core-5.5.10-200.fc31.x86_64 needs 38 MB in /boot. I ...
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Recover files with broken inode on NTFS

I already saved a broken hard drive using ddrescue to copy the entire drive to a save location. Now I got a lot of files recovered, but some video files are showing like this when doing ls on the ...
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Windows 10 Creating and deleting directory in remote location (Netapp) in a loop fails after some iterations

Some of our tests programs create directory, writes some files there and deletes it. These tests started failing recently after we moved to Windows10 (from Windows7) The tests were in Java - ...
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Does Windows 10 now support EXT4? [closed]

I recently updated my home PC from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro via the inline update tool (update existing installation.) This went smoothly with no notable issues. Upon completing the update I ...
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Shrink ReFS partition

How can I shrink a ReFS partition (under any OS, most convenient would be Windows Server 2016)? diskmgmt.msc doesn't supports shrinking of ReFS, neither does gparted. From what I've read in the ...
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How to make qemu-kvm Guest OS read symbolic links from shared folder while connecting VPN through OpenVPN?

My qemu-kvm VMs are in Ubuntu 16.04 and QEMU emulator version is 2.5.0. I want my VMs to read/write from/into the shared folder (in which I created symbolic links from Host OS). while the VMs ...
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"du" command on Windows10 under MSYS2 gives "fts_read failed" error on USB formatted as exFAT/FAT32

I'm currently using MSYS2 on Windows10 and I tried to execute du in the MINGW64 Shell Launcher on a USB formatted as exFAT. Assuming the USB is mounted on /g/, the structure of the USB is pretty much ...
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Why my SD card shows "folder is empty" and how to fix?

I recently got an SD card to supplement my laptop's storage capacity. However, after moving some files into there, I see that the folders are "empty": Interestingly, size is still being taken up: ...
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Merging two Sharepoint Directories

I'm wondering if anyone has any experience in merging file systems. I have two SharePoint directories (with countless subdirectories...), one ~1.5TB and one ~0.5TB, that need to be merged together. I ...
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How do I cd into a directory whose name contains a tilde?

On my computer, the $env:temp variable contains a tilde: PS C:\> echo $env:temp C:\Users\MOON~1.REN\AppData\Local\Temp When I try to cd into the directory that $env:temp points to,the following ...
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Is there a way to identify Microsoft Office temporary files from their properties in OS X?

When we open a Microsoft Office spreadsheet or document, generally a temporary file with the name starting with "~$" is created near the main file. Is there any way to distinguish these files based ...
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How to rename a file on an ext4 filesystem from Windows with ext4 incompatible features with ext3 enabled?

I know about doing something like mounting the disk but all those solutions works because ext2 is retro compatible with ext3 and ext4. But that time, it won’t work : I enabled ext4 features so ...
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How to fix "extended" partition in Windows 7?

I have created a (supposedly) logical FAT partition on an MBR disk, in the "extended" area using Linux. Afterwards, Windows (on the same machine) storage manager gets confused and doesn't see the ...
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How to get a list of the least used (read) files on a Linux system

I'm doing a clean up of a hard drive to free up some space and avoid unnecessary files, I want to get a list of the files by their frequency of usage (i.e get a list of the most files read and the ...
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Disadvantages to using ext4 to store media on an (256GB) sd-card

I like to keep my music (approx 140GB) and video (another 100GB) on an sd card. For one thing this makes moving to a new laptop easy. Once the data is copied to the card, I'll mostly be mounting it ...
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Rsync --delete option isn't deleting hidden dotfiles in target

These are the steps I took: Create some test files: /tmp $ mkdir src tgt /tmp $ cd src/ /tmp/src $ touch .test{1,2,3} /tmp/src $ ls -la total 0 drwxr-xr-x 5 user wheel 170 18 Aug 15:02 . ...
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What are the effects of removing a dual boot on the hard drive?

Let's say I have a dual boot on my computer with two linux versions and therefore two partitions on my hard drive. Is there any potential negative effect from going back to a single boot system by ...
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flash drive available space lower than expected with ext4

I recently formatted a 256G flash drive with ext4 on debian. Afterwards I set the reserved disk space to 0 via tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1. However when I call df -h the available space shows only 229G. ...
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missing disk space on ext4

I have a case like this. One partition 7.7GB, And I cannot where this space was used. /# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 488M 0 488M 0% /dev tmpfs ...
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Hanging XFS filesystem on encrypted USB device

I have an XFS filesystem mounted from LUKS encrypted partition on a USB device on Arch Linux. It works fine sometimes, but occasionally hangs (or gets incredibly slow?) for minutes at a time when ...
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Select drives for installing a new container image

I have to spin up a k8s cluster from my host OS. The cluster roughly takes ~20GB space on my system. I have these partitions df -khT Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted ...
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Can a program running in user space and one running in kernel space access the same file in the file system?

I have a C-library that is being used by programs running both in user space and in kernel space. I want the C-library to be able to read from a file stored at some place in the file system. Will ...
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Unable to trash files accross filesystem boundaries when using Thunar

I have an XFCE container with 2 mounts --bind : /home and /home/collab. /home/collab is meant to be a shared directory where everyone has access. Each time I try to move a file from /home/collab to ...
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Docker images that don't contain a package manager

I typically think of docker containers as executable processes that get to carry with them little bits of "environment", such that nothing needs to be installed on the docker host. For instance, a ...
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Strange data corruption on HDD after switching from Windows to Linux

After I have replaced Windows 10 (the laptop has been in use for some time witout any issues) with Kubuntu Cosmic (ext4 over lvm, kernel 4.18.0-16-generic) on a laptop, I have started experiencing a ...
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How do I stop Windows from stopping write access to an unmounted EFI partition on a disk that is not used by Windows?

Setting: The computer has two or more physical hard drives. One is entirely dedicated to a Linux installation, one entirely to Windows. Both can be booted up. The system is configured for EFI booting. ...
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What is the significance of the number of instances of a minifilter driver in the output of fltmc?

Pardon my ignorance as I only have a vague understanding of what minifilter drivers are. We have Windows 10 user workstations with a minifilter driver installed called PtcVfsd. When running fltmc ...
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File Access Time is not getting modified in File explorer

I am trying to figure out the last access time for file in Windows if user read the file. I know that to improve the performance of NTFS filesystem in Windows vista and above the last access times of ...
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Windows 10 - Files missing from desktop suddenly after explorer crash

Today on Windows 10 Home, explorer.exe seemed to crash (entire screen turned white, all windows closed, then the desktop slowly reappeared and the taskbar was repopulated). Afterwards, a number of ...
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Windows Subsytem Linux Inconsistent File I/O Errors

I've been having some pretty hard to diagnose issues working with WSL, Ubuntu 18.04 The problem: Random File I/O failures Environment: Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu 18.04 Steps already taken apt-get ...
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Who touched my file?

On Windows 10, my build process is copying a read-only file to several different locations. once in a few builds, the original file becomes writable and its "modified date" updates. I'm trying to ...
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fsck says a partition is mounted in Ubuntu Recovery Mode

I ran Ubuntu 18.10's Recovery Mode and fsck failed saying dev/sda7 is mounted. I tried unmounting it only to be told that "it is busy". I'd appreciate any hints on solving this. The partition dev/...
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Is there a filesystem which zeros blocks or extents when deallocating them?

This feature would slow down file removal on native OS for no reason, however is particulary useful to compact virtual machine images. Some formats like VirtualBox' .vdi allows not only to grow ...
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Windows says I need to format FAT32 parition

I was recently trying to move some of my files on my USB drive (Kingston DT Elite G2) from NTFS ot FAT32 using a Linux Mint 19 system. What I did was: make a FAT32 partition copy some files from the ...
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Corrupted files - all files on drive had their size capped to 64 KB

I have a Windows hard-drive from my previous computer that got corrupted in a very weird manner. All the files in the hard-drive had their size capped to 64 KB (I connected the hard-drive to my ...
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Can't delete file as root

Routine system update (Linux Mint 19) failed with an error about not being able to make a backup of a file. File has very weird owner and group and odd lsattr behavior. Can't delete the file as root. ...
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Why is the max size for the boot USB drive 32GB for unRAID OS?

I am assuming this is related to the file system the drive is formatted with, but I can't seem to find this information anywhere. Also, why do they limit the installation of unRAID to only a USB and ...
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how to get fsck to work on a LUKS encrypted partition that for some reason will not umount

openSuse 42.3 (KDE) logged in as root LUKS encrypted /home partition (is /sda4 a primary partition no LVM) is not accessible on boot although unlocked. Apparently a bad block exists. fsck.ext4 -nf /...
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LSI 9211-8i error: `mpt2sas_cm0: mpt3sas_scsih_issue_tm: timeout`, filesystem disappears. Hardware issue?

Every few days on my DL380 G6, I get the following error: mpt2sas_cm0: mpt3sas_scsih_issue_tm: timeout And the filesystem completely dies, spewing ext4_find_entry errors or similar whenever a ...
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How to create same file in all subdirectories?

I have many existing subdirectories, like: /path/to/my/subs/a /path/to/my/subs/b /path/to/my/subs/c No I want to create a new file in each of them. The filename is constant, like: /path/to/my/subs/...
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Files in the same directory seen differently by different tools [duplicate]

I have installed chocolate(packet manager) programs at: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin And also installed fzf(search tool) as GVIM plugin.Accidently installed at the same dir: C:\ProgramData\...
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