A file system (or filesystem) is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve and update data, as well as manage the available space on the device(s) which contain it. A file system organizes data in an efficient manner and ...
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mounting to non-empty directory, then later deleting original files
I have some unused space on my disk, and decided to use a little of it to create a separate /var partition. There might be an easier way to do this, but my idea is to
copy the existing /var ...
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Connected external HDD slows down system
I need to connect large external hard disks (with many many files) to a system running Ubuntu. I have no idea how the Linux kernel is treating the inodes for the external drives, but attaching huge ...
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Mount Google Drive in Linux?
Now that Google Drive is available, how do we mount it to a Linux filesystem? Similar solutions exist for Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files.
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Symlinks and EncFS
I am trying to secure my Dropbox account by using EncFS. My strategy is as follows:
I store all my files in a folder called ~/Public/.
The encrypted counterpart of ~/Public/ is ~/Private/.
Use ...
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Best file system for removable media
Recently I had a SD card destroyed ( software wise ) on me.
Basically as well as I can figure it out, all the metadata was wiped (ext4 card).
This happened when I was working and suddenly had to write ...
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Mount Windows phone as a removable device
I know that the Zune software doesn't work with Linux of any kind, but I found a guide here that shows how to change regedit in Windows to use the phone as a removable device with direct access to the ...
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“mount -t TYPE /” - how to know that what could the “TYPE” be?
OS: ex.: Ubuntu 10.04 - how to know that what does the "mount -t TYPE" knows? I mean is there a command to list the supported filesystem types using with mount??
UPDATE: is the following cmd always ...
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How to resize ext3 image files
I have created an 200MB ext3 using the following commands.
dd if=/dev/zero of=./system.img bs=1000000 count=200
mkfs.ext2 ./system.img
tune2fs -j ./system.img
How can I resize it to 50MB and 300MB? ...
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Filesystem for Gentoo root?
I need a fast and space eficient filesystem for my Gentoo workstation.
I have some expirience with ext4 and found it very slow on lots of small files inside the filesystem. I am considering another ...
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UDF and fstab (no UUID)
In my search for the ideal filesystem to share files between a lot of computer with a lot of different OS'es I accepted this answer and installed a UDF filesystem on my USB stick.
First I blanked the ...
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XFS vs Ext4 vs Others - which file system is stable, reliable, for long run such as 24/7 case
XFS and Ext4 file system which one is really stable and reliable for long run with heavy disk write and read?
the system will be used in a place where 24/7 is in service, and every second there is ...
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creating custom mount point in / for a file system
If I want to mount a file system at /myname is it possible by just editing fstab file?
Or should I do more to be safer?
Is any other way to do it, or its not a good idea to do?
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Moving Data From Old System to New System via NFS Mount
My old system was running RHEL 5,(systemold.blah.blah), and I wanted to update the server with as little downtime as possible, so I built out a new system (systemnew.blah.blah) and put RHEL 6 on it.
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File size :size of content and what is seen different
Assume you have a file 342MB but when you get into that file and look the content of it; you see that everything occupy around 92 MB. No hidden file or any other thing exist on it.
How can that be ...
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How can I copy a folder structure from one server to another keeping the same owner and permissions?
How can I copy a folder structure from one server to another keeping the same owner and file permissions?
