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How can find support large files?
I would like to find all the files of my system, which sizes are more than a couple gigabits. I thought I would use find -size, but the man page states:
The size does not count indirect blocks
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Why does a software package run just fine even when it is being upgraded?
Say I am running a software, and then I run package manager to upgrade the software, I notice that Linux does not bring down the running process for package upgrade - it is still running fine. How ...
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What are inodes good for?
I wonder if storing the information about files in inodes instead of directly in the directory is worth the additional overhead. It may be well that I'm overestimating the overhead or overlooking some ...
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Linux Ubuntu - inode limitation on a 500GB hard disk ? Can you explain please?
I am launching a social networking website on LAMP Stack on Linux Ubuntu, I know that people are going to upload lots of pictures. Let's say I have 5000 users and each user upload a minimum of 100 ...
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Why the inode value of shadow file changes?
I created a hard link for the shadow file. For removing the passwd of the user I opened the shadow file in vi editor and removed the encrypted passwd and then saved. The inode value of the shadow file ...
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Quickly find which file(s) belongs to a specific inode number
I know of this command:
find /path/to/mountpoint -inum <inode number>
but it is a very slow search, I feel like there has to be a faster way to do this. Does anybody know a faster method?
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How can I increase the number of inodes in an ext4 filesystem?
I had a problem (new to me) last week. I have a ext4 (Fedora 15) filesystem. The application that runs on the server suddenly stopped. I couldn't find the problem at first look.
df showed 50% ...
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What is a Superblock, Inode, Dentry and a File?
From the article Anatomy of Linux File Systems by Tim Jones, I read that Linux views all the file systems from the perspective of a common set of objects and these objects are superblock, inode, ...
