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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 inode value changes when we edit in “vi” editor?
When I edit a file in "vi" editor the inode value of the file is changing. But when edited with cat command the inode value is not changing.
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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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what is inode for, in FreeBSD or Solaris
I know a little about linux kernel. BUt for Freebsd, the "vnode" actually is similar to the "inode" in Linux kernel.
And there is a "inode" concept in FreeBSD or Solaris.
So my question is: what is ...
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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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On what occasion will inode change?
I checked manual of find , and there's an option -ctime which specify the last modification time of inode.
But on what occasion would inode change ? When is that option useful ?
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Odd Inode/Ram cache drops happening in CentOS
I run a CentOS 5.7 machine (64bit) with 24GB ram and 4x SAS drives in RAID10 setup.
This machine runs nginx/1.0.10, php-fpm & xcache. About a month back the RAM usage of this machine has changed.
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How can I increase the number of inodes in a 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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Portable way to find inode number
At first I used stat -c %i file (to help detect the presence of a jail), which seemed to work on any Linux distribution under the sun. On OS X' I had to use ls -i file | cut -d ' ' -f 1.
Is there ...
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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.
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How can I find the number of files on a filesystem?
I want to know how many files I have on my filesystem. I know I can do something like this:
find / -type f | wc -l
This seems highly inefficient. What I'd really like is to do is find the total ...
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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).
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Memory size for kernel mmap operation
I'm interested in the way Linux mmaps files into the main memory (in my context its for executing, but I guess the mmap process is the same for writing and reading as well) and which size it uses.
So ...
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tripwire report - inode number
Hi I am investigating tripwire and have stumbled upon something which i am unsure about. in a tripwire report generated after i modified hosts.deny to include an extra # I noticed the inode number ...
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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, ...
