Questions tagged [filesystems]
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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ntfs bad clusters (chdsk /r)
A chkdsk /r on a Windows XP NTFS system partition revealed bad clusters in a file. chkdsk reported "bad clusters in file xyz have been replaced" (translated).
The filesystem is stored on a plain SATA ...
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SD card file system gets corrupted after power loss
We have an embedded system running Windows Embedded Standard 7 (SP1 beta) on an SSD hard drive. We log data periodically on a SD card.
We had a power loss while the software was running (therefore ...
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Differences between local and remote file system drivers in Windows
Can anyone specify the differences between local and remote file system drivers in Windows? I've read into it but don't really understand the differences.
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Actual danger posed by surprise removal of NTFS volumes?
I've seen a lot of warnings to always use the "Safely remove hardware" icon in the notification area (a.k.a. "system tray") before disconnecting a drive formatted as NTFS, implying dire consequences ...
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Mac OS X: Use links to server for user's Documents & Pictures?
I'm setting up a shiny new desktop Mac. I'd rather have the Users/user_name/Documents and /Pictures be symbolic links to a server (via /Volumes).
Any downside/problems/tips with doing this?
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UFS as a shared partition between Linux and Mac OS?
I see that (i) you can't boot from a UFS disk with Snow Leopard, and (ii) Disk Utility doesn't allow UFS partitions to be created.
Why the aloofness? Is UFS still a reasonable choice of shared ...
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FAT32: Unable to use the whole partition size
I recently bought a 8GB USB flash disk. I created a fat32 filesystem (using mkfs.vfat) on the whole drive (/dev/sdb1).
df -h shows approximately 8GB available, but when I try to extract an archive on ...
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How can I find out what is setting my windows 7 NTFS partition's dirty bit all the time?
My windows 7 machine's dirty flag is being set all the time on my primary partition. It is a RAID-0 striped drive which have been working for the last year without a glitch. The last few weeks every ...
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How to delete 0 bytes files from a fat filesystem from within linux
I have an external hdd which is formatted with fat for use by both on linux and windows. The issue is that I can't delete some of the files I have which show up with size 0. Also, the modification ...
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Is windows chdsk enough or there are better alternatives to recover filesystem?
Recently I have various problems of file corruption on Windows 8.1 x64 when I copy large files.
Using HD Tune Utility apparently there is no hardware problem the already present files are fine too, ...
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Mac OS X 10.7.5 file copying, deleting takes a long time
When I try to copy/move/delete a file, even a very small file, it'll sometimes take 5 seconds.
I'm wondering what the cause of the delay is and how I can fix it.
Gracias!
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Any way to make Mac understand Windows file paths
My organisation use Windows almost exclusively, but I use a OSX for my work. Their intranet and many applications links to files on the org's Samba shares directly (e.g. "W:\Folder\File.ext")
Long ...
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mounted “/” as “ro”, but I can still write to it
Some puzzling situation. Here's what I have:
root@OrangePI:~# cat /etc/fstab
# OrangePI fstab
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults,ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/boot vfat defaults,...
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What happens to ReFS if I reinstall Windows?
ReFS seems nice. As far as I know, it is some sort of software RAID. If so, the information is managed by the OS. What happens somehow Windows is corrupted and I reinstall Windows? Is all information ...
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What is the benefit of tailoring `mke2fs` regarding inode count compared to leaving the default
I have found that manually setting the -N parameter of mke2fs -t ext4 according to guesses or looking at df -i output creates much less inodes for a given size of a file system. Filesystem creation ...
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High kernel CPU usage from CcUnpinRepinnedBcb
"System" regularly takes 100% CPU on one core of my PC, so a little over 6% total on average. This causes some extra heating and battery usage.
In trying to figure out why, I checked the ...
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How to get ZFS working on Alpine Linux 3.18?
According to this tutorial, all I need do is install the zfs and zfs-lts packages, issue a modprobe zfs and I'm good to go.
Not so much.
Having created a pool and a couple of datasets, I rebooted the ...
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Command to unlock "Locked" files on macOS Sonoma
In the end I manage to delete a .plist file from MacOS Sonoma recovery but when I reboot it keeps appearing again.
Why does this happen and how do I solve it to eliminate it permanently?
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FileSystemWatcher does not react to changes in excel file
I am trying to create a systemFileWatcher that watches a specific excel file for any changes. When triggered it should runs a few commands, logs the activity and then continues watching. However, for ...
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ubuntu filesystem display names in df -hT
I have an older linux system that has a certain file structure that we need for a program we use. im building a new ubuntu server to take over for the older one and im trying to make the filesystem ...
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How to sync filesystem and wait until it's done
On my embedded device, I want to let user export logs on plugged USB disk. USB disk is normally used only to read, so I don't care much about safe unmounting. But when logs are stored to it, I need to ...
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Why does "nautilus"(Gnome FIles) gives me so smaller size of directory, compared with "du"?
I have compressed a folder and if I right click in the folder and click properties, I get from nautilus (Gnome Files)
but instead if I run du (from the branches parent directory):
$ du -sh *
292M ...
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How to get the total actual number of inodes for file system?
In the Linux terminal I can do df -i to show how the inodes are allocated. That is explicitly not what I need.
What is the terminal command needed to reveal how many inodes are available to the file ...
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How to see all files affected by chkdsk?
A few weeks ago my home lost power while my computer is on. Recently I have encountered some problems.
So I did a full system check, I used SeaTools for Windows and all drives passed S.M.A.R.T check, ...
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Breaking down e2fsck
Is e2fsck -cc equivalent to badblocks -nsv -o badblocks.txt; e2fsck -L badblocks.txt?
If so, could I potentially speed up the testing by getting badblocks to do a destructive read-write test? Like ...
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Why might Node be unable to read multiple upper case files in a Windows directory?
I have a problem related to a software development library called typescript-eslint, but seems to actually be an issue with Windows (specifically, reading files from a drive).
What's interesting is ...
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Linux mounted VFAT filesystem shows semicolon-asciicode for some uppercase letters
The disk is listed as follows:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd
Disk /dev/sdd: 298.09 GiB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors
Disk model: USB 2.5"-HDD
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
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Having issues mounting raw disk image in OSX
I have received this disk image from a embedded linux device. I need to mount the image and check some files on it.
This is what I have tried so far:
> hdiutil attach -nomount ~/Downloads/dskimg....
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How do I import ZFS pool from a crashed system?
I had one ZFS pool attached to a system that crashed. I was looking for ways to bring that pool to a new system however it looked like I need to use zfs export first, given I do not have access to the ...
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Trouble mounting SquashFS filesystem from TP-Link Deco M5 router firmware
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I am new to reverse engineering and trying to retrieve the file system of a TP-Link Deco M5 router from its firmware. I have successfully extracted the SquashFS filesystem from the firmware ...
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No longer able to create or modify folder/file in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I was making changes to an Excel file(.xlsx) in WPS in my Windows 10 partition, and tried saving it when I got the following dialog box that my file had suddenly changed to read-only mode, which is ...
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Mount or sync an S3 versioned bucket with rewind - back in time
Assuming I have an S3 versioned bucket (backed by Ceph), I would like to restore from it at a specific time. mcli has a --rewind feature that allows some operations to time-travel into the past taking ...
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MacOS creating SFS (Self-certifying File System) group
Attempting to run the SFS file system toolkit (http://www.fs.net/). As I executed ./configure, an error shows with message
configure: error: Create sfs user/group or use --with-sfsuser/--with-sfsgroup
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Efficiently Add and Remove Bytes at the Start of a Large File
This is my 2nd attempt, after I got some answers to an initial question and then realized what I really need... 🙂
I have very big files (*.iso, *.mkv) which I need to alter by adding a fixed number ...
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GlusterFS help on setting up or a alternative option
I currently have a mergerFS mount set up with 3 disks, but want to add a way for another server so i can use docker swarm and have both hosts with the same data and setup. All i could find was rsync ...
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Drive balancing and duplication with mergefs in Ubuntu
I want to use mergefs to create a drive pool in Ubuntu.
Is there any option available on mergefs to pick the drive with the most "relative" free space (the % Free space of the drive) instead ...
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btrfs errors when running newer kernel
There is a strange btrfs related problem I'm facing on a server. When running a kernel version up to 4.9, everything works like a charm. If I upgrade to any version >= 4.19, everything breaks down. ...
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Desktop,Music and Public folder in the Home directory gets Link (broken) (inode/symlink) on opening a pdf in the Home directory.How do I fix it?
Yesterday I shut down my laptop and it took an exceptionally long time to shut down after lots of messages being displayed by the OS(Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS) on shutdown.
Today,when I started my laptop it ...
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Windows 11 Enterprise asking for UAC when copying my files into my own Documents folder
I think my filesystem killed itself last night. Today, I was cleaning up my desktop, and started getting UAC prompts when copying files owned by my user from my desktop folder to my documents folder. ...
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Cannot write to SSHFS mount in user namespace created with "unshare -c -m --keep-caps bash"
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Ultimately I am trying to mount a remote filesystem in a kubernetes pod on a self-hosted cluster that uses Docker as a container runtime. The process running in the pod determines the mount ...
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Can't delete file and folder with strange filename on a REFS Server Volume
I have an odd problem on a 2012 Server with a ReFS Volume - Can't delete file or folder with strange filename. It's our Project Shares there and I think that this problem occurred during a lot of copy/...
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"Application not found" when opening folder
I was experimenting with different file explorers and made one of them the default one (I believe it was One Commander). The software was since deleted so I cannot open the folder because there is no ...
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How can I disable C Lang File Permission notification everytime I debug a program
I am trying to debug a simple c program and everytime I run the debug VS Code gives me this notification saying the program I am running is trying to get access to Desktop (surely it means the path ...
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MergeFS/UnionFS on Windows 10 (or WSL Debian)?
I am looking for a way to merge multiple file/folder paths under a single path, on Windows.
The goal is to have access to various files/folders scattered over multiple paths (of various length) under ...
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How can i fix RAW filesystem on microSD card?
Suddenly yesterday afternoon my microSD card stopped working. It wasn't read by all my pc, except Chromebook (there was everything okay, but I will say more about that later).
On all my Windows ...
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Make contents of folder A visible inside folder B?
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I'm looking for a way to create folders with this behavior:
All content of folder A automatically appears within folder B
Changes in folder A (creating, modifying, deleting) are ...
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ext4lazyinit and forcing to have similar times as an ext4 format time, advantages and disadvangages
I saw this question and while 2 years is a long time, can anybody share anything about any progress on ext4lazyinit. I am specifically interested in this statement by Ted Tso -
So that is what the ...
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What are version and revision of a file?
The docs for the nnn file manager says that nnn is able to sort a list of files on the basis of:
apparent disk usage / disk usage / extension / revision / size / time / version
But what are the &...
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Which file should I refer to? /proc/self/mounts or /proc/self/mountinfo?
In some places I can see that people are suggesting to avoid using /proc/self/mounts file as it is deprecated. However, I don't see any such thing in the official documentation: https://man7.org/linux/...
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Where does FFMPEG store temporary files in Linux?
I quit the conversion of a very large file in ffmpeg. The incomplete file is taking up almost 200GB on my disk but it does not exist in the directory I was working in and I can't find it anywhere (it ...
