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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Can bash get out of sync with the filesystem?
I may not be phrasing my question correctly, but I'll do my best to explain the symptoms I'm experiencing. First, for context, I'm running an Ubuntu server (no GUI), version 12.04.3 LTS (according the ...
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I cannot move multiple files by drag and drop method
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS.
My problem is when I want to move some files to another place, I'm selecting files then trying to move but the selections disappearing and this way I can move only one ...
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Why do I only Have the Option to Delete Files Permanently?
I have noticed that when interacting with files on other drives, I only have the option to delete files permanently, and I don't have the option to send them to the trash instead. This creates a ...
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Hard drive error : EXT4-fs error - Failed to write entry, ignoring: Read-only file system
I have a Asus R556L, running Ubuntu 18.04LTS on dual boot with Windows 10. The sata mode in the bios is AHCI.
Ubuntu works fine, but after working for a while, it goes to the black terminal screen ...
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Resized VirtualBox VM disk, but when partitioning can't use all new available space
yesterday I've resized a VM Virtual disk from about 15 GB to about 26 GB.
If I run fdisk I can check that disk is resized:
Disk /dev/sda: 26.2 GB, 26214400000 bytes
255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, ...
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Move files preserving symbolic links
I have some files on an external hard drive, to which I keep soft symlinks in my home folder (many links, not just one). I need to move some of the original files to another hard drive, and I want to ...
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orphaned inodes on root file system (ext4); persistent problem
On my trusty systems (VMs under vmWare, desktops, and laptops), we have the following issue.
The root file system seems to have inodes that are never marked as "free".
After a month of a working ...
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Difference between FUSE and VFS in linux?
What is the difference between VFS [Virtual File System] and FUSE [File System in User Space] in linux. I think, most of the popular OS today support VFS feature. I recently had a chance to go through ...
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Does enabling ACLs have an effect on performance?
I'm looking at a web application that needs ACLs enabled. Are there any benchmarks or other documents to show what potential impact ACL does{n't} have when the file system is under heavy load?
Also, ...
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How to automount removable devices with options?
I'd like to automount (using the XFCE desktop) USB devices with Btrfs. This works as with any other filesystem just by plugging it in and waiting for two or three seconds for it to appear under /media/...
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Ubuntu installer thinks my drive is empty, does not see windows partitions
I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 64bit. I just installed Windows 7 64bit moments ago. My drive is currently partitioned like so:
100MB Boot partition (automatically made by Windows 7 installer)
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Archive Manager: An error occurred while loading the archive
I'm recently getting this error when trying to open a simple zip file using file-roller, aka Archive Manager.
I've unzip, unrar and 7zip installed already.
However, when I try decompressing the files ...
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Identifying the file system of an img file and mount it
I have downloaded an SD image loader from nxp website.
The name of the downloaded item is O8.1.0_1.4.0_ANDROID_TOOL_7ULP_GA (This is not an Android question btw).
The image loaded on my SD is inside ...
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How to hide format option from that menu
How to hide or put a password on formatting partitions to prevent other users from formatting my data accidentally
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Root file system sometimes mounted read-only after resume from suspend on Dell laptop with 18.04 Bionic
My freshly installed Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 on a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop has a weird problem. After resuming from suspend mode, sometimes the root file system is mounted read-only. This happens more ...
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Error while copying files from Windows to Ubuntu after Windows update
I have a dual boot system with windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04.
Until now I could freely copy and paste things from Windows to Ubuntu while accessing Ubuntu.
After a Windows update I can't do it.
I ...
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Broken Ext4: Why are all superblock backups missing?
After running a program for disk diagnostic made available by Seagate, my disk became blank. I was able to recover all the partitions with TestDisk, and their files are there just like before, except ...
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Installer offers ext2 as a filesystem for main partition in Ubuntu Server 16.04
I'm installing Ubuntu Server 16.04. When it comes to the partitioning after using the "guided LVM" option Ubuntu will offer the following filesystems for the partitions:
ext4 for root
swap for swap (...
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What's up with the sudden appearance of .AppleDouble folders all over my filesystem?
Something I have never seen on my Ubuntu machine before now- .AppleDouble folders have appeared in many different folders all over my filesystem.
It creeped me out- like someone on a Mac was looking ...
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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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Setting up group disk quotas
I am hoping to get some advice in setting up disk quotas. So, I know about:
Adding usrquota and grpquota on to /etc/fstab for the file systems that need to be managed.
Using edquota to assign disk ...
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Mounting Old HDDs - Not sure filesystem, RAID or not, Linux or Windows
In a bit of a pickle trying to see what's on some old hard drives sitting around in the basement. I set these up years ago and have no memory of whether they were in a Linux or Windows desktop, QNAP ...
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Recover image preview in file explorer in Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade
Upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 and have tried for days to recover image preview when searching thru files.
Thus far all help links for this problem tell you to access "preferences" and go to "...
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How compare several directories' data transfer (read/write) for defined periods?
With interest for the amount of data transfered to or from several directories (including sub directories) it occured, that there is lack of tooling for this special task.
For low level integration, ...
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usrmerge of {/bin, /sbin, /lib}: How is the system supposed to be?
It seems that
some systems have a symlinks like this
/bin -> usr/bin
/lib -> usr/lib
/sbin -> usr/sbin
Some systems have single file-symlinks of executables in these directories like ...
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Errors in initramfs-tools
I've been having an error when updating or running any apt command for a week or so. Upgrading to LTS 18.04 hasn't resolved it, nor has removing all old kernels. Space isn't an issue either.
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How to permanently fix fsck check failing during boot
My laptop is an ASUS FX505DY. I bought it without any OS and installed Ubuntu 19.10, then upgraded to 20.04 a few months later (no dual-boot).
From time to time, the system doesn't boot normally and ...
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Clone Ubuntu and Windows to new SSD
I want to switch to SSD from HDD. I have dual boot on my hp laptop. My C drive in Windows and Ubuntu / directories have less size than new SSD.
But the whole HDD is of 1 TB and SSD of 240 GB. I am ...
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How to make sure, files are shared and transferred via ethernet rather than WiFi?
I have two ubuntu machines, that are both connected to a local network via WiFi. But at the same time they are also directly linked with an ethernet cable.
Now on one machine I am sharing a folder ...
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Ubuntu shows incorrect Thai language with 'ls' command
Ubuntu shows filenames in Thai language incorrectly.
$ locale
LANG=th_TH.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="th_TH.UTF-8"
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Why is setting the UUID on a checksummed filesystem so slow, and should I be worried?
I cloned a drive, and now I am trying to change the UUID of the cloned drive. There are various answers on AskUbuntu as to how to do this. I was prompted to run a fresh e2fsck first, which I did. ...
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How can i use extended attributes for file tagging in ubuntu desktop in a pratical way?
I was wondering why there is no graphical implementation of xattr in ubuntu desktop. In my opinion tagging files and folders with extended attributes is a quite convenient way to organize data.
Does ...
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How to choose a specific FileSystem to work on?
I've an EC2 instance running, here's version:
LSB_VERSION=base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
NAME="Amazon Linux AMI"
VERSION="2017.03"...
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Is there an overlay file system doing a copy-up on read?
What I‘m looking for is a mixture of an overlaying file system like overlayfs or aufs that does a copy-up on read access. Or, from the other side, a service like unison that sync only files that have ...
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System halts while copying a large file
I am trying to copy a large file of size (approx. 40 GB) but most of the times system halts while copying the file (after 50%). Sometimes it copies the file as well. I have tried to change the ...
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Can't add files to bootable usb
I created a bootable Lubuntu USB using a Ubuntu 16 machine using the startup disk creator tool in Ubuntu. the disk is created well. than i need to add a file to the folder EFI/BOOT
I need to add ...
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Fastest File System Type
We currently/still write to tape for off-site backups (avg size is 80 GB per day) and the robot is misbehaving as of late. I'm setting up an NFS share on Ubuntu Server 14 (16 when it releases) to ...
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root file system mounts as read only after some time
My root (/) file system get remounted as read only after the system has been up for some time. This seems to vary from 3 hours to 48 hours. This system is running Ubuntu desktop 14.04. Its primary ...
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Accidentally partitioned media drive as ext3 during install (was ext4), how can I recover?
I recently did a fresh install of ubuntu on a system with an old ubuntu install. I have a separate hard-drive which used to have a single ext4 partition, but during the install I accidentally selected ...
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How can I prune my BTRFS backups?
I have a BTRFS backup system where I take daily snapshots (btrfs subvolume snapshot) and serialize them into incremental change files based off the previous days backup (btrfs send -f backup.date ...
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Strange output of btrfs fi df after converting from RAID0 to RAID1
I just converted my 3 disk btrfs filesystem from RAID0 to RAID1 and balanced it.
At first the data was all in the RAID0 filesystem, so running btrfs filesystem df showed something like this: (XX are ...
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How do I interpret the output of the filefrag command?
I have a dump file in my system that has confidential data in it. I tried using the filefrag command to open it. The output is:
root@sateesh935-SVE15115ENB:/home/sateesh935/Desktop/g3# filefrag -v ...
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mystery of missing file modifications (hybrid drive + Ubuntu 12.04)
Last week (Sep 10) I worked a whole day (on my Ubuntu 12.04 HP elitebook 8530p laptop) using a tex editor (TexWorks) and Jabref to maintain a Bibtex library. Today however I noticed all my ...
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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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Is file permission secured when it transferred from Ubuntu to Windows?
I am having 9GB text file which is encrypted .
This file contains some confidential data . Which is on my system(Ubuntu) and my external HDD (ntfs) . This file get daily updated and then encrypted . ...
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How to mount UBIFS/MTD partitions?
I have a lovely mount: unknown filesystem type 'ubifs' error with Ubuntu 14.04. What package provides this functionality?
It should be included in some previous versions of Ubuntu. The mtd-* ...
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My western Digital hard disk was failed to be recognized by Ubuntu system recently. It seems have error sectors. How to recover data from it?
I have a 6T internal hard drive in my Desktop with Ubuntu 20.0.4 system. It works well before, but very recently it happened twice that it can't be recognized by the system (unmounted). The first time ...
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Best way to watch the contents of a directory in near-real-time?
I've got a server with an external HDD, I download files to the main disk then transfer them over to the HDD for storage. I mostly do file management over WinSCP, but it's not possible to move files ...
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How to delete a corrupted directory, can't see the inode
"Something happened" many months ago and a folder was corrupted. I want to delete that folder - or rather, I want to remove the inode that points to the space that was assigned to that ...
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How to make fast read/write access for rclone synced directory?
I want to sync my Google Drive directory with local directory and after some research I concluded that rclone seems to fit my needs, but I still can't figure out some nuances.
As for now, I managed to ...
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