Questions tagged [filesystems]
A filesystem is a way to organize and store computer files with their data.
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Linoma MFT leaving files neither it nor root can overwrite-
We have a problem with a managed file transfer program. We have been using it for years without a problem, but now it has a few specific projects that are unable to overwrite specific filenames. It's ...
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Getting sector number from inode or address_space mapping
In am trying to understand how to calculate a sector number from an inode in the ext4 filesystem. Therefore, I am reading ext4_mpage_readpages function.
About the function:
During a read request, if ...
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Where should an FHS-compliant program ideally place all its files?
After reading the FHS, I have concluded on the following table:
+----------------+-------------------+---------------------------------+-----------------------+
| Part | Sofware in /opt | ...
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unlink/rm target of an open symlink
I've come across an issue where processes that load symlinked .so files crash if I update the .so while the processes are still running.
I have long-running processes that load shared libraries (.so)...
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“File” backed by running program?
My clients have many programs that read and write files of a certain format. They do it by sending regular old system calls, so libraries like gio aren't (in the general case) involved. I would like ...
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Why do ext2 inodes only have 12 direct blocks?
I'm currently writing a hobby file-system for fun. I was wondering if anyone knows why or where I could get information on the design philosophy of ext2.
Specifically, I was wondering why each inode ...
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What units are the values in /proc/partitions and /sys/dev/block/<block>/size?
I have a sample emmc block info from an android device
From /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
179 1 5120 mmcblk0p1
Using my little intelligence I am assuming /proc/partitions ...
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How to enlarge this partition?
Inside vmware ESXI I have a CentOS virtual machine, and I resized the virtual disk from around 30 GB to 120 GB using vmware "edit" vm menu.
Then I booted using a gparted bootable ISO and resized the ...
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How to wipe a partition quickly with value zero? [duplicate]
I want to wipe a partition quickly.I search the answer in website.
such as:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=16M count=96
shred -v -z -n 1 /dev/sda1
But:
All the commandline,will overwrite with ...
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what will you do if you cant reboot the file system [closed]
what happen if you cant reboot the file system
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AIX OS: File appearance monitoring in a directory
I have a program, which loads files into database. Program runs every time when a file (or files) appears in the source directory.
A bash script was written for the monitoring of files in a directory,...
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4TB drive formatted with ext4 can't mount due to wrong fs type
I had someone plug in a brand new 4TB drive via usb in an external enclosure in a data centre. I remotely used disk to create a partition with the default parameters to use up the entire drive. I then ...
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Snap RAID and LVM
I have multiple physical disks of different sizes that I wish to create one large pool of storage space on. The purpose of this large pool of space is to store a large encrypted file which is too ...
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How to flush writes to disk aggressively?
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 on x86_64 devices.
I have been haunted for months by a mysterious issue that I couldn't reproduce myself in which our application's configuration files were getting corrupted. ...
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Missing folders, where else should I look
When I first configured a server I created a set of folders and an additional drive. Today it was reported that these folders are now missing. After looking through /log/messages I see this line, ...
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How do I store one large file over multiple hard disks?
I have setup my Linux box with Snap RAID and MergerFS which gives me the impression of having one large pool of space. The problem is I can't store a single large file that will span multiple hard ...
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How to mount a device of gpt type?
In Linux Mint 18.3 which boots from an HDD, I want to mount an external SSD.
When I run the command sudo fdisk -l, I get all the drives and partitions as well as the SSD and when I run sudo blkid, I ...
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Why is /opt backed up separately from /?
I am working with a script that does system back up. One part of the script backs up /, /opt, and /usr/local. But isn't /opt and /usr/local under /? So why would the script back these up separately? I ...
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Unrecoverable Btrfs filesystem after a power failure?
I've been writing to a 3TB USB external hard drive (WD MyBook) with a Btrfs filesystem, when accidentally I've switched the power off to the drive's power brick.
What is strange - the write ...
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Can ZFS subvolumes contain other filesystems?
I want to format a subvolume with a filesystem other than ZFS, since a program I use needs certain File System features ZFS doesn't have (Portal 2 on macOS has File System constraints). APFS has a ...
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short way to perform efsck when we have huge number of disks
we need to do e2fsck on all our disks ( redhat linux - 7.2 ). Since on each machines we have 22 disks ( ext4 file-system ) it will take time to do it on each disk as all know when doing e2fsck need ...
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Are released blocks logged in the journal for ext4?
Suppose we have a simple case:
ext4 file system with journaling
a single file named file, which has no other hard links
the inode for file has associated with it only 1 data block
My understanding ...
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How to log recently files accessed in Linux for data mining
How to get the list of files accessed in linux based on certain folde . lets say we have a folder name /data .. i want to know which files accessed when . One option is to run
# find . -atime xyz ....
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Other permissions apart from filesystem access
Quoted from this answer about the difference between filesystem user id and effective user id of a process, it says that
The FSUID is used for filesystem accesses, the EUID for other things.
What ...
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How do I implement a file system driver driver in Linux? [closed]
Assume that I have invented a new file system, and now I want to create a file system driver for it.
How would I implement this file system driver, is this done using a kernel module?
And how can ...
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Can not upgrade Kali,not enough space in /var/cache/apt/archives
I installed Kali Linux on VM VirtualBox(my host is Ubuntu 18.04). I am newbee to Kali,but the two linked questions are not related to my problem.
When I try to upgrade Kali
apt upgrade
926 upgraded, ...
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Why every device in Linux is a file or folder ? what are the advantages? [closed]
Why every device in Linux is a file or folder ? what are the advantages ? and
what is the necessity of /dev/sda1 , /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda3 file ? it's size is 0 bytes .and after mounting the hard disk ...
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Does the Linux kernel need a file system to run?
My opinion is yes, it does, because all useful exposure to the outside world (non-priviledged processor mode) would first require a process running in the outside world. That would require a file ...
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What binaries are stored in /home/<username>/bin?
I have been reading an article from GeeksforGeeks that includes the following image of a unix filesystem layout:
After some reading (mainly of this post) I was able to determine the difference ...
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After re-connecting hard disk, terminal commands stop working
The current working directors is, e.g. /media/username/ExtHDD/.
When disconnecting and re-connecting that HDD, commands such as ls do not work properly anymore.
$ -????????? ? ? ? ? ...
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Why is the “ls” command showing permissions of files in a FAT32 partition?
I believe that the FAT32 file system does not support file permissions, however when I do ls -l on a FAT32 partition, ls -l shows that the files have permissions:
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 11 Mar 20 15:...
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How to detect NTFS/exFAT filing system type fronm script
User has a (incremental) backup script using rsync, to external device. This was erroring on an SSD he had. Turns out (I had no idea) his device was formatted exFAT. Unfortunately that means I need ...
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How to trim down Amazon Linux OS for more free space?
I use EC2 on Amazon Web Services. The OS of the t2.micro instance is a customized “Amazon Linux” with 1 GiB RAM and 1 vCPU. When accessing this instance via their Cloud9 IDE I find that by default ...
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Some special files in Unix
Background
There are lots types of special files in Unix, for example symlinks, device files and proc files (under /proc). /proc files are just normal files or even text files. But for the rest, I ...
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Record filesystem activity
I would like to record all filesystem activity so that I can later replay it at will (for benchmarking purposes). What's the best way of doing that?
I considered strace, but rejected that because it ...
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How can I copy sparse files from a ext4 file system to an exfat file system and keep the apparent size?
My issue is that I am trying to copy files from my Ubuntu linux system which uses a ext4 file system to a Sandisk 1TB USB card, which uses an exFat system.
In the ext4 system, the entire directory ...
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Unable to delete directory, imutable flag is not set, not mounted
So i have this directory that causes a lot of problems when trying to delete lxd via snap. The directory in question is /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/default/. If I try to delete it with sudo ...
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Are btrfs advantages negated with over-the-top encryption?
Are the benefits of btrfs lost if one uses encryptFS on top? What advantages (over ext4) of btrfs remain intact with encryptFS? If I want to have the full benefits of btrfs with encryption, is LUKS ...
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Tracking all file changes in a unix host
I'm evaluating a tool and I need to identify all files (including system config files) added, changed or removed by this application (it is installed using pip).
After installing on a external host, ...
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Does Linux have system calls to access all the features of the file systems it supports?
Linux supports many file systems (for example: ext3, NTFS, FAT32, etc.).
The following diagram shows how Linux allows a process to access files:
So assume that a process called the read() system ...
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Protecting access to NFS shares in Docker
I would like people to access NFS shares from within Docker. Problem is inside of Docker they can become root, and then they can have write access to anyone's files by becoming that user. Is there a ...
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Using rm --one-file-system to only delete files on the local filesystem
I have a FUSE mount located in /media/writable, however, sometimes this FUSE mount disconnects, but some programs will still attempt to write to /media/writable.
When I restart the FUSE mount service,...
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How to copy files from HDFS recursive to the local file system
How we can copy recursive jar files from HDFS ( jar files are under sub folders ) to local folder?
Example
export hdfs_folder=/app/lib
export local_folder=/home/work_app
while under /app/lib we ...
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How can I add support for a new file system type to an existing kernel?
I have an ARM device running an OpenEmbedded-based kernel. A new requirement is going to involve mounting an ISO 9660 file system, but that file system is not currently listed in /etc/filesystems. I ...
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Is a mmaped file considered an open file in linux/unix?
Hi I feel confused about open file and mmapped file. I know that if a file is accessed using system call such as read/write will return a file descriptor, and be considered as an open file? How about ...
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Is it wrong to fill the reserved space in an external USB drive for archiving purposes?
I have been filling a hard drive and a couple of backup drives with the family pictures and videos. Once a video goes into the archive, it remains there in a folder correctly labeled with the date. ...
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Can I stop a system call before it is executed using Stackable Filesystems? [closed]
Let's assume that I have an application X. I only track system calls that X issues. For example in systems like "CS-STILo". The system detects anomalous sequences of system calls to detect code reuse ...
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How can I find what uses the space in a LV(logical volume)?
The logical volume(aka LV), centos-home is created automatically when installing CentOS 7 by default, but I didn't use it manually.
Now, I have mounted an empty directory, work to centos-home.
/home/...
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Navigate file easily in Linux GUI Apps?
This is not about File Manager as I can copy/paste or type the full path in the address bar. This question is about other apps, e.g. FeatherPad text editor.
If you have a file buried deep within your ...
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How to access external hard drive from Ubuntu Shell and Python code [duplicate]
I am running out of space in my local device. I have external hard disk. I want to point my python code to write to directory there. How can I know the full path for the hard disk?
I tried to go to ...
