Tagged Questions
5
votes
1answer
40 views
Finding all the hard-links of a file without traversing the file system
I have seen in this page that inodes have a link counter to know how many files (read: "directory entry") point to this inode. Is there a way to know which directories contain such entries without ...
26
votes
2answers
1k views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
83 views
How do I manually modify an inode?
I am using Ubuntu Linux and, just for fun, I want to create a hardlink to a directory (as seen here). Because I'm just doing this for fun, I'm not looking for any sort of pre-developed ...
9
votes
2answers
1k views
Is it possible to change Inode count on an ext4 filesystem? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I increase the number of inodes in an ext4 filesystem?
I have a homemade NAS with Debian Wheezy 64bit. It has three disks - 2x2TB and 1.5TB, pooled together ...
4
votes
1answer
104 views
ext4 directory lists as a file
I'm working with a large (8TB) EXT4 filesystem in linux. After a power outage, the filesystem wouldn't mount. fsck is taking weeks to complete, but i ran testdisk and i'm able to see my partition ...
2
votes
1answer
729 views
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
89 views
Is the sticky bit not used in current file systems
Can I safely conclude that the sticky bit is not used in current file sysems and reuse the bit for my own purpose.
3
votes
1answer
142 views
Filesystem and journal layout
Is there any tools or some way in linux which can be used to view internals of filesystems ?
How to view the inode related structures and journal ? and cached pages of files (pagecache).
27
votes
5answers
15k views
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, ...
