Questions tagged [filesystem]
The general filesystem in Ubuntu is arranged in a single tree with everything under /. This tag should be used for questions dealing with Ubuntu's layout of files, permissions, and files that reside in special locations on disk. Questions related to a particular filesystem should instead use the specific tag for that (for instance: ext4, btrfs, zfs).
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Recover an overwritten file
My project c source code file became corrupted while making the tgz of the file. I wanted to make *.tgz of 4 files. The file names are common.c, common.h, myfile.c and myfile.h. I mistyped the tar ...
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Trying to mount backup of /dev/sda as ext4 for recovery, fdisk reports invalid partition table
I used dd if=/dev/sda of=~/backup.img where /dev/sda was an ext4 filesystem. I want to perform recovery on it which means I need to mount it as ext4 filesystem using extundelete application. Can ...
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Problems uninstalling Ubuntu, trying to put XP back on [duplicate]
I have an Acer Aspire One ZG5 netbook that came with Windows XP. It was loaned to someone, who then put Ubuntu on it. I know nothing about Ubuntu, so I looked for information on this site for help. It ...
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Mount disc Xfs filesystem
How can I mount a disc with a xfs file system?
I'm using sudo mount /dev/sdc2 /media/mntiomega i receive the error: you must specify the filesystem
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Files saved with Ubuntu is not visible in Windows 8
I have dual booted my laptop with ubuntu 12.10 and windows 8. When I download some file via ubuntu (e.g a pdf) and save it on a windows partition(NTFS), I do not see it through windows 8. Even when I ...
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Hard drive in software RAID5 dissapeared
I have 6 HDDs in my box, 2x256Gb ATA OCZ-AGILITY4 SSDs.
Each is partitioned into one block of 48Gb and one block of 208Gb.
The 48Gb partitions are RAID0 striped and serve as the swap space (md0).
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File System on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
How are files stored in Ubuntu 12.04? In Windows, if you look at your local disk (C:), you will see that programs installed are traditionally kept in Program Files and Program Files (x86) if you have ...
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How to fix Incorrect filesystem property information? [duplicate]
My hard drive has four partitions.
Windows 80gb
Ubuntu Linux 70gb
Storage 530gb
Recovery 14gb
I used Gparted (booted Linux from pen drive) to remove 30 GB from storage and subsequently re-allot ...
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Why has Ubuntu moved the default mount points?
Why has Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions moved the default mount points from /media to /media/$USER
Example I plug in a USB drive and it's name is EXT4-250GB-USB it used to show up in /...
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What is this home folder in my downloads folder?
I am trying to remove or delete Acrobat 9 which isn't working properly but it isn't showing up in the Synaptic Package so I've located it in a folder called 'home' which is in my downloads folder. The ...
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Check that filesystem and partition table are in a good state?
I just changed around the partition table of an Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop and everything seems to be working fine. I want to perform similar changes on another (more important) system.
The machine boots ...
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Why aren't my changes to /etc/security/limits.conf having effect?
I am trying to provide support for core dumps on my Ubuntu machine (as by default they are disabled). So I have made the following changes to /etc/security/limits.conf:
root hard core 1000
After ...
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Resizing Partions with GParted
So here's the situation:
After installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Running df -h gives me the following partitions:
/dev/loop0 , 29G, 9.3G, 19G, 33%, /
udev, 1.9G, 4.0K, 1.9G, 1%, ...
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Where are downloaded files stored?
Today I installed 12.10 as my second OS. I made all updates and upgrades. Then I downloaded crunch-3.4tgz and fern-wifi-cracker 1.6 all.deb but I could nowhere find these files to be able to install ...
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How do I make a read-only file system writable for pendrive
When I am trying to format my pendrive, I'm getting the following error.
root@obbu-G41M-Combo:/home/obbu# mkfs.vfat -n 'Ubuntu' -I /dev/sdb1
mkfs.vfat 3.0.14 (23 Jan 2023)
mkfs.vfat: unable to open /...
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EXT4 Filesystem seems to have disappeared
I previously had an LVM consisting of a few different drives, including two 4TB Seagate USB's.
I migrated my data off the drives. Copy -> Shrink -> Copy -> Shrink
Once the drive was removed I ...
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Creating filesystem from nothing
I need to create filesystem with just one partition from nothing (/dev/zero).
I tried this sequence of commands:
dd if=/dev/zero of=mountedImage.img bs=512 count=131072
fdisk mountedImage.img
n
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Create a shortcut to a folder on the desktop 13.04
I am looking to create a shortcut either in the explorer or on my desktop to the /host/users/Harry/ folder so I can access my windows partition easily, it is a hassle to go through the filesystem each ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.02 filesystem
I am about to install Ubuntu 12.04.02 desktop on my home PC. Can somebody please tell me what is the default file system for Ubuntu 12.04.02, is it ext3 or ext4?
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How do I mount my main internal ext4 drive on a fresh install of Xubuntu 12.04? (Acer c7 320GB HDD)
First of all I am a brand-newbie to linux/ubuntu. Second, I have searched on my own for a way to do this for 4 hours and just can't quite find it or find it explained the right way. I apologize if ...
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regarding file copying in ubuntu 12.04
i have to replace my hard disk drive (not a usb type HDD, 500gb) so i have backed up content to some other hardisk (not a usb HDD, 80gb). Then i brought a new HDD also installed ubuntu 12.04 & ...
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Invalid filename issue when I transfer files on Ubuntu to the external drive
I backup files on Ubuntu 12.04 to the external drives.
The WD external drive works well.
But the Maxell external drive cannot recongnize some files names, such as the saved .html files with '|' or '/...
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Flash drive file system isn't recognized
I recently got this credit/business-card shaped USB flash drive.
In windows 7 it's recognized fine, after some drivers are automatically installed (without user interaction) once it's plugged-in.
In ...
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best ubuntu samba guide [closed]
after trying the official Ubuntu samba guide and failing, then a youtube video guide and failing to make samba work, I am asking all of you which one is best as there are so many to choose from.
I ...
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Setting default path when opening a terminal session
I am new to Ubuntu.
Whenever I open a terminal my current working directory /home/Varun (as found by typing pwd).
Is there any way I can make the terminal's path to be set as /home/Varun/Desktop/...
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Creating btrfs subvolume like @ or @home
Being intrigued by btrfs I decided to toy around with it in a VM. Installation works great as long as I remember to put /boot on a separate partition and it all seems to work fine.
What I would like ...
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Which filesystem should I use to format my external backup HDD? btrfs?
I have a new external USB drive I plan to use for storing backups only. (It is a WD Red 2TB NAS Hard Drive SATA III model WD20EFRX mounted in a USB enclosure.)
The drive came without a partition ...
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How do you know, using the CLI, the type of partition that corresponds to its id?
fdisk, and many other partition programs list the partition tables using a code or id for the partition type of each partition listed.
How do you know the type of the partition, the type name (in /...
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How many bytes in 1 block or 1 inode?
I'm trying to specify the amount of disk space for specific user in my Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS System. I manually configure disk quota by editing /etc/fstab and add 2 more option next to the defaults ...
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Changing current directory to shared filesytem using linux terminal
I have a shared filesystem (E: in my installation of Windows 7) in which I keep my programming codes. I want to shift from Windows to Ubuntu for programming mainly because I like the linux terminal ...
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Integration of a tag based file system approach in Gnome and Nautilus
I am using Gnome 3.8 and Nautilus and I am quite satisfied in principle. Yet I dislike the traditional hierarchical file system approach using paths. It may be me but I often cannot find the files I ...
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How to create a directory in "/"
I'm trying to build my own linux distro using "linux from scratch" project.
In order to do so I need to access different features, On my development process I went through many troubles in Ubuntu One ...
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Moving directories
If I use the cp command to copy a directory A to the inside of directory B, will it double the amount of space that it takes up (directory A + copied version of directory A)? I can't imagine that ...
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How do I enable files/folders to be shared on the same PC
I'm new to Ubuntu. Just spent a couple of days overcoming all sorts of minor problems and performing tweaks and downloading apps etc.. Having installing 12.04 (32 bit) onto an old Xp machine leaving ...
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Share files Using 12.04 [duplicate]
I'm new to Ubuntu. Just spent a couple of days overcoming all sorts of minor problems and performing tweaks and downloading apps etc.. Having installing 12.04 (32 bit) onto an old Xp machine leaving ...
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Install Ubuntu over Slackware [duplicate]
I want to install Ubuntu on a dual boot Windows XP machine which already has EXT2 space and Swap allocated for Slackware, I want to install Ubuntu in the area now used by Slackware. When I go into '...
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I want to take Backup from ubuntu to other Drive from Terminal
My ubuntu has crashed and now I can only boot up from recovery mode where I can access only terminal.
Is it possible for me to secure my data from Ubuntu in recovery mode? What would be ideal is to ...
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Can't see system drive Sda1
I can't see my "C" drive any more (excuse the DOS notation) It doesn't show up in my home folder.The drive is partitioned into a 30GB Root and the rest reserved for data None of it shows up in my home ...
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/var directory and redis
In terms of the filesystem hierarchy standard, the /var directory contains variable files — files whose content is expected to continually change during normal operation of the system— such as logs, ...
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new file default execution permission? [duplicate]
I can't figure out why I don't have execution permissions on files I create by default.
I don't think I messed with any Ubuntu permissions, it's pretty default stuff.
When doing some research I found ...
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How do you get Netflix-Desktop to run for multiple users?
Netflix-Desktop keeps telling me I do not have extended filesystem enabled on the guest account. I would like to allow my sister to watch Netflix on my laptop without giving her my password.
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How to let MySQL (mysqld) to create and write to "/var/run/mysqld" directory?
I really don't understand how all those privileges work in Linuxes.
To start MySQL server mysqld program has to write its .pid files to /var/run/mysqld/ directory. But we know from FHS (Filesystem ...
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Non existing Mount Points fails to automount on boot, How to fix this?
I think I've messed up something with my partition mount points.
OK, this is the thing. When I have been fresh installing Ubuntu 12.10 from a Live CD, I made all my partitions with ext4 file system ...
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Which file system supports RAID and is mature enough for a media server?
I am planning on setting up a home media machine with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 13.04 (please let me know if this makes a difference).
I have 4 hard drives and I am looking for a file system that supports ...
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Are btrfs updates rolled in to 12.04 LTS (3.2) kernels?
Many BTRFS bug fixes and updates are being applied to the 3.10 Kernel by the filesystem maintainers - is Ubuntu actively pushing those fixes and updates down to their current LTS kernel (3.2.0-X)?
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what filesystem should i choose for my HDD?
I am new to linux.few months ago i was using linux in parallel with windows.but it makes my machine pretty slow,so recently i formatted my systemdrive and installed only ubuntu in my machine in one ...
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My Kindle 4 is no longer recognized: how can I get it to work again?
when my Kindle was connected to my Ubuntu laptop it suddenly rebooted..
all the documents are gone and it is no longer recognized by Ubuntu.
I have reformatted the partition (fat32) using gparted, ...
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Why can't I open the "root" folder in Xubuntu?
After I finished installing Xubuntu I tried opening the Folder "Root" which has a cross next to it (I didn't know what was that) I already know that Root is my hard drive so i opened it and I got this:...
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Where to locate a tgz file and contents of it?
I downloaded processing-2.0.1-linux64.tgz.
In Windows, when I download a non-install software (.exe) I locate it under Program Files directory so that it stays with other software. I don't want it ...
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chown -R user:user .* changes permissions backwards: is this the correct behaviour?
I got into a lot of trouble when changing the permission of a folder myfolder residing in /.
I issued the command
sudo chown -R luca:luca /myfolder/.*
My intention was to change ownership of all the ...
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