Questions tagged [filesystems]
A filesystem is a way to organize and store computer files with their data.
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Best practice for dealing with files in the /home directory when distro hopping? [closed]
So I like to distro hop quite frequently because I got into Linux quite late during a time when each distro is advancing quite rapidly. I've looked up numerous threads about storing files on a ...
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"Input/output error" on wake from suspend
I have an Asus ExpertBook P5.
I've had Fedora installed on my laptop for the past couple of days. I've found that when the system is suspended, while I can log in after it wakes up, I am unable to ...
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Does ext4 allow partial update of unwritten to written extents in O_DIRECT case
O_DIRECT allows writes on a file to proceed with i_rwsem in read mode.
Let's say I have allocated 100 fs blocks(4K) for a file with posix_fallocate(). This now becomes an unwritten extent for the file....
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Linux: prevent filesystem remount
Is there on Linux any mount options or anything else (that I can specify in /etc/fstab) that prevent the possibility for a filesystem to be remounted via mount -o remount,... ?
For example, let's ...
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How I use ComposeFS to make an integrity-checked mount?
It's been a while since I last played around with mkcomposefs, but I remember either getting errors during generation/mounting OR I it wasn't detecting any changes. Very simply, how does one:
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Already deleted files on other system suddely show up in wastebin after new install
I am confronted with the following situation:
I have had a Manjaro System on my ASUS Vivobook installed for the past 2 years. On that, I was tidying up my external hard drive last February. In the ...
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lightdm/xorg prevents remounting read only
I have a kiosk system based on Debian 12 with some partitions readonly (namely / and /boot, while /var and /home are writable). The setup works completely fine. However, sometimes, after a system ...
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Why is ext3 superblock data seemingy not updated after mount?
I had the idea to compare the system clock with the data of the last superblock update when booting (as traditional UNIX systems did).
However it seems the superblock (or at least it's write time) is ...
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Cross-namespace mounts from A to B when all processes leave A
Suppose mount namespace A looks like
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lower/
overlay/
upper/
work/
and we run
mount -o upperdir=/upper,lowerdir=/lower,workdir=/work -t overlay overlay /overlay
and we copy the mount at /...
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Is there a way to link or mount a directory such that writing to the target goes to one destination, but reading from it grabs from another?
In my case, there are two NASes that I want some very large files written to, one with a fast connection and small storage, and another with a slower connection but large storage (let’s call them NAS ...
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EXFAT usb drive not accessible in Windows 11 - how to properly format for EXFAT in Linux?
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I partitioned+formatted the drive in my Linux PC using gparted. gparted created a new /dev/sda1 partition as part of the process.
It is recognizable in other Linux PCs.
It is recognizable/...
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How much disk space is occupied by a filesystem's metadata?
My disk is partitioned like this:
# fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 411647 409600 200M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 ...
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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 ...
