Questions tagged [filesystems]
A filesystem is a way to organize and store computer files with their data.
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Btrfs read-only file system and corruption errors
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I am trying to figure out why my file system has become read-only so I can address any potential hardware or security issues (main concern) and maybe fix the issue without having to reinstall ...
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How can I see how much space was freed by trim on an SSD?
In my current setup, I have three different filesystems on two different SSDs: A FAT partition and a BTRFS partition on one drive, and ext4 on a second drive. When running fstrim, the output is ...
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"mnt": Numerical result out of range and wrong fs type issue while connecting shared folder from local system
I have a mac M4 chip and running my ubuntu and centos stream 10 on UTM and when it try to connect the shared folder from my mac i keep getting this issue as "wrong fs type"
After so many ...
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Is there any kernel filesystem extension that can recognize uri paths?
Is there any extension of linux filesystems that can solve uri paths in terminal to avoid doing things like:
cat https://example.com/file.txt
cat file:///some-file-path/file.txt
instead of
curl -vs ...
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How can I find multiple duplicates of media files,sort, backup them and delete the rest?
I have a 4 TB hard drive containing pictures, sounds, and videos from the last 15 years.
These files were copied onto this drive from various sources, including hard drives, cameras, phones, CD-ROMs, ...
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Cannot access files to delete
I currently use freefilesync on ubuntu 24.04 to back up my data. A couple of months ago I started to get errors on the external backup disk that a quick (and ineffective) look didn't resolve so I just ...
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Overriding delete operation inside a mounted directory as moving operation
Suppose a mounted directory /mnt/rclone. The problem is I have insufficient permission to perform, e.g.
rm -rf /mnt/rclone/file.txt
Outputting:
rm: cannot remove '/mnt/rclone/file.txt': Input/output ...
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Linux Mint: /var/log shows 165GB disk usage but no large files found
My Linux Mint system reports that /var/log occupies 165 GB of space, but all subdirectories and files within it are small (total <100 MB). This is causing the root partition (/) to fill up, ...
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Btrfs can see only half of the disk, bug or feature?
I think I have found a bug in btrfs, but I am not sure. At least the following script, very likely, can demonstrate it.
This script creates an 1TB big file in /tmp/btt, formats it as a btrfs and ...
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Why does the Use% shown by the df command not reflect the correct value? [closed]
On our RHEL 7.9 systems, we have noticed some strange behavior.
Each machine has 4 disks, each with an 8TB capacity, but we are only using about 1.9TB on a partition.
What doesn’t make sense is that ...
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Maximize file system usable space for a mostly read-only data partition
I'm trying to wrap my head around all the different (common) file systems available, but I can't decide which one best applies to my scenario.
My use case is:
The partition is for data only. System ...
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Is enlarging XFS file system heavy operation? [closed]
If there is some data in the file system does it has to be moved?
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df shows 539G used on /apps, but du shows only 47G — unexplained disk usage discrepancy
I have a problem and I don't know what the problem is.
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 5.0G 113M 4.9G 3% /
/dev/mapper/appsvg-...
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wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1
I'm new to Linux (just over 1 month) and I’ve encountered a problem with my drive.
I have the main drive (SSD) and a secondary drive (HDD).
The HDD was working fine, but now I’m getting this error ...
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Files that end with a period are inaccessible on an exFAT drive
I have a backup that was copied from Linux (ext4) to an exFAT filesystem.
File and directory names that end with a period are inaccessible.
I can (partly) list them, but ls behaves strangely.
It ...
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