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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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 ...
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Does the presence of a large `found.000` folder on a Windows machine would indicate a dying SSD?
I found a large folder named found.000, I know this is linked to data corruption and bad-sectors but what it means is unclear to me.
Should I change my SSD? Are the bad sectors not used anymore? If I ...
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Degraded four-drive RAID 5 with missing superblock on single drive
I'll start with the question: Based on the following information, is there a mdadm command I can make in the readyNAS to reassemble all four drives in the raid 5 in a working state where I can pull ...
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W10 command line prevent process launch failure due to "blocked" redirect files
I have a .vbs file which runs a .bat file which has the following line in it:
python src\core\start.py 1> stdout.txt 2> stderr.txt
... annoyingly, after I shut down a previous run and ordered ...
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How do I update the UUID of an ExFAT partition?
How do I set the UUID of an ExFat partition?
The linux tools I've tried (mlabel, gparted) only allow resetting the UUID to a different random one, not to a UUID I choose.
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Files and folders on shared drive created on Linux are not visible in Windows (dual-boot)
I have a dual-boot with Linux (Manjaro) and Windows installed on two separate SSDs, plus I have a shared ex-fat HDD which contains documents and the like.
Problem is, very often, when I'm on Linux and ...
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LastAccessTime from where does it catch its date
Im trying to make a script to delete users that havent logged in the past 3 months locally on my pcs,but here are my doubts/problems.
My approach
I started thinking to use the properties of C:\users (...
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Is there a quick way to reclaim space overallocated for files on ext4?
Samba 3 has somehow overallocated a lot of space on my NAS for hundreds of files. (Looks like that was caused by strict allocate = yes in smb.conf even though it's unclear to me why. Filesystem is ...
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Bcachefs: remove dead drive from an online filesystem
I'm playing around with bcachefs to see how it handles various scenarios.
Currently, I'm doing a simple experiment where I'm writing random data to a file on an array with 3 HDDs set up with 2 data ...
