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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ZFS on linux - corrupted directory with missing files, scrub shows no errors?
My file server crashed a couple of days ago, a few hours after some critical files were written. Now, when I access the directory that contained those files, ls reports errors and the files show up ...
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Boot Terminal commands on ISO [closed]
Does anyone have an idea on how I can create a simple OS system on a USB flash drive that executes custom terminal commands and then reboots the device?
Note: I do not want any graphical interfaces, I ...
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Download file via sftp in one go
I have a 6 Mb file that I need to download via sftp. Problem is that the filesystem I want to download to doesn't allow writing to existing files. Meaning that if the file is downloaded in chunks it ...
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"Case insensitive" clear definition [closed]
Many levels of operating systems ( from kernel, through libraries, up to user interfaces ) are taking care of converting a user input so as to make the final result
( kernel reference ) independant of ...
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How to make btrfs compression level setting propagate to files and folders
I have a btrfs filesystem I am using compression on. I want set the compression level on a folder:
btrfs property set -t <folder> compression zstd:8
Which correctly sets the type and level of ...
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Are Windows ReFS file-level snapshots what File History should have been?
The first impression I had when coming across Windows File History was that multiple versions of a file would be saved every time said file was changed, and that those versions would be listed in the ...
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how to alignment the different TYPEs that could be output from lsblk?
On some machines we get
lsblk -l
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 180G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 raid1 /boot
sda2 8:2 0 179G 0 ...
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What's the meaning of the individual characters in the ACE "user:fakeusername:allow:rwxpdDaARWcCo:----"?
I have output like the following and would like to understand the meaning of the individual ACE characters after the basic permissions "rwx". Sadly, I couldn't find any docs about those. It ...
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Restrict a specific group to access a directory and drive
I have created a group "restricted" and added a user "user1" to this group , how can I restrict this group to access some specified directory and drive.
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firefox returns odd results for file:/// or file:///tmp
Not long ago (a few months at most), Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 was able to open files in /tmp, using a file:///tmp/xxx link. Now these links show the files as unavailable.
When I try to use a file:/// ...
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Windows 10 limits my file name to LESS than the standard 256 [duplicate]
The entire filename in question is only 207 characters long. I just want to add a "1" to the front of it, and it will not allow me to type anything into it.
I have tried the following:
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`ls` command stuck when run as root
I have this folder containing only two files. If I use root and cd to that folder, ls would get stuck. However, ls runs correctly when I log in as a common user, or ls from parent folder like ls ...
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Cannot install windows alongside linux on NTFS partition - unrecognised type
I am attempting to install Windows 10 Pro from a usb onto a partition that I have formatted to ntfs using
sudo mkfs.ntfs -Q /dev/sda3
When I run
df -T, --print-type
The output includes:
/dev/sda3 ...
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Renaming file in a long-path in Windows 11 in GUI does not work, when programmatically it does
I have problems renaming a file in a long-path in the GUI on Windows 11 v23H2, while programmatically it can be renamed. How can I tell Windows to allow me do the renaming in the GUI?
G:\ is a google-...
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Is LVM broken or xfs filesystem dead?
As we say all too often, never prod on a Friday ... But an admin on my team wanted to expand a lv, so he broke the whole system.
I've managed to remount the disk and the group volume, and now I'm ...
