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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.

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I'm going to have the same home directory mounted on both a SLES 15 SP6 machine and an Oracle Linux 9.4 machine - which do not even have the same hardware (both are x86_64 but may have a different ...
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I am studing ext2~ext4 filesystems. I got curious about one fact envolving 2 pendrives formatted as ext2 and ext3: The ext2 is about 8 GB disk, the partition has 41 groups, blocks of 4KiB and gd_size ...
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I’m completely stuck with a folder on Windows 11 that refuses to be deleted. Here’s the situation: Folder path: C:\dev\target_cursed This folder was generated by a bug in a VSCode GitLab plugin, ...
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I'm going to host a lot of Hugo posts as page bundles(directories) on a ZFS filesystem on a FreeBSD machine. So there's going to be 100,000 directories(page bundles consist of images and an index.md ...
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Summary I need to delete a file on a Windows Server, however attempting to delete results in "access denied". Additional Background The server is domain joined. The file is local (Not on a ...
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I had a server which was based on apache; it was used to serve multiple image tiles of a map. I thought of improving it by shifting it to HTTP3, for this I had to shift to nginx and quick protocol. ...
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On Linux I have a filesystem on a small physical volume that I need to move to a larger volume. I could take the system single-user and just mv everything, but I wonder if there isn't a way that ...
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From what I've read, XFS seems to have a lot going for it—it performs well in certain scenarios, is the default for some Linux distributions, and is popular in enterprise settings, which suggests it's ...
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Most filesystems seem to get slow for folders with many small files. I have a lot (100,000 to 1,000,000) of small text or image files (tens to a few hundred kb) and having them all in one large folder ...
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We are using 15TB disks on our RHEL 8.6 Linux servers. These disks are for the HDFS filesystem. Compared to other disks like 4TB or 8TB, we are noticing some degradation in the logs of the datanode. ...
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I am running zfs-linux on a Linux Mint (LMDE 6) machine for maintaining a RAID-Z2 storage. The home directory is its own dataset with mountpoint=/home. zpool/home cannot be unmounted by non-root user. ...
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I'm new to this page and im not sure where to get help. I hope this would be an appropriate place. TLDR: Docker overflowed server OS storage, after doing docker prune, i realised that my mounted ...
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I want to get a zvol created on zfs and want to get two initiators connected to this zvol via iscsi. I tried that and on one of the initiators I used fdisk to create the ext4 filesystem over it and ...
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We have an XFS volume mounted on RHEL9.5 (5.14.0-503.22.1.el9_5.x86_64) with only 88K files on it: $ find /mnt -type f | wc -l 87739 The file system reports ~200GB of free space. However, the total - ...
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Just for test, I created and mounted the same XFS file system on two hosts based on a shared device (pmem).Host A created a file in its mounted directory and executed the sync command to ensure that ...

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