A filesystem is a method of storing and organizing computer files and their data.
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Ignore file changes
I have a process, which generates a file with configuration data and then calls a subprocess with this data as parameter. I'd like to override the configuration data, which is passed. The problem is, ...
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How does fsnotify setting affect system performance?
Occasionally a software package I install complains that the default fsnotify setting is far too low for decent performance. Intellij IDEA or crashplan are two examples.
They suggest using fsnotify ...
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Find total file size of a disk
I have a corrupted NTFS volume. I ran rsync to copy everything from it, which reported a total # bytes transferred at the end.
What's another tool I can use to verify the total # bytes on the disk ...
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Linux file system that ages off older files when partition is full
I am wondering if there is a file system equivalent to a round-robin database, which for a fixed size, ages off the oldest files. It is pretty easy to implement with a simple cron job, which I have, ...
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kernel: “echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs”
I got this errors in syslog. Any idea what does it mean? The system is running on Ubuntu 12.04, kernel: 3.8.0-35-generic #52~precise1
It looks to me like failure when trying to write to disk...
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Detect open sockets manually (not using nc or similar)?
I'm trying to debug a network problem on a embedded system which has a very limited set of userspace applications. Meaning I can't use any of the following
sudo lsof -i
sudo netstat -lptu
sudo ...
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Make Linux forbid colons in file names on NTFS partitions
Does Linux really allow colons in file names, even on NTFS partitions? Why is that? And is there any option to set it straight, and do not allow colons (and other characters restricted by Windows) in ...
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ROLE PLAYING GAMES FOR LBUUNTU RUNNING ON 512 MB RAM DDR2 [closed]
GRAPHICS ARE VERY LESS(I THINK 32 MB) BUT IT CA RUN GTA SANANDREAS! SORRY I DONT KNOW TO HOW TO CHECK MY GRAPHICS BUT THIS MIGHT BE HELPFUL:
ALSO, IT MUST BE ROLE PLAYING AND MUST BE GOOD
THANKS IN ...
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“mke2fs -r fs-revision-level” - how is this used?
mke2fs -r offers
Set the filesystem revision for the new filesystem. Note that 1.2 kernels only support revision 0 filesystems. The default is to create revision 1 filesystems.
Trying to ...
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Is there any way that we can “predict” a file system corruption? [closed]
Need help in looking for any tools that we can use to "predict" an upcoming file system error. Or, can you help me define possible symptoms of file system error. I'm using CentOS.
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Space Problems? [closed]
I just got a new SD card for my pi. Trying to install node.js, I ran out of space (I've also recently installed a LAMP server system). But, when I plug it into my main (Windows-Ubuntu dual-boot) ...
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How to batch clean filenames containing invalid characters
I have a larger directory with files whose filenames contain special characters such as line breaks. The origin of these characters is seemingly that I copied and pasted text from within pdf files ...
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Does using noatime on modern Linux make sense?
Starting from version 2.6.30 (which was released 5 years ago), Linux has the option relatime enabled by default. It means updates of file access time are very infrequent and prudent.
But I still see ...
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Something like a symbolically linked file, but with change details attached?
Is there a file type or method for using files in which certain files look and behave like symbolically linked files, but contain extra meta information for changing the data when they are read?
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Which directory MUST exist in / to qualify an OS as Linux
Studying the lpic wikibook for the lpic exam 1, I encountered the following question.
Which directory MUST exist in / to qualify this OS as Linux
I've searched google and the wikibook but can't ...
