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Organized data encoded in a pre-defined format and stored on a filesystem.

In the computational sense, one-dimensional array of bytes stored in a filesystem, typically encoded a pre-defined format, often indicated by a file-extension or "magic number". More "durable" than in-memory storage.

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How to "stage" file movements before performing them on Windows?

I have a disk with terabytes of data. I would like to reorganize the disk. The problem on Windows is that if I move one of the directories to the new place, I have to wait hours for that relocation to finish. Is there some way for me to "stage"…
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Strange file appeared in my public_html

I was sending some files through FileZilla to my site when I noticed this strangely named file: \002\217a\333\\rb\004ݠ\025H\214d\277\\Z\304H\3328\f#\3641\ \tFA\001\\Z\272r\…
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Can I edit a "live" log file?

I want to mark some log entries for a web server log file. Is it possible to do this while the file, possibly simultaneously, gets new entries added by the server?
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Vanishing files on Ubuntu

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 web server installed on an Azure virtual machine. I am encountering a strange issue, where on seemingly random occasions files or directories are suddenly deleted without warning. I am the only one with access to the vm. I…
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Serving images from two different directories with Nginx

This should be basic... I'm brand new, and no amount of googling and searching stack exchange is helping. I have a website that I want to be able to serve images from, from different directories. I think the easiest way to do that would be to map…
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FTP file size limit

I have a webhost account, which has a file size limit, so cannot upload my backup file. How can I upload it maybe in more pieces and after that merge pieces on server? I don't have SSH access.
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Inotify/iwatch cannot see when more files created at the same time

I would need a script that can check files when they are getting uploaded/created on the server. I wrote the script that checks, but I would like to make it run when a create event happens. I tried it with iwatch then with inotify but I experienced…
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Using the output of a program as the contents of a file, dynamically

In Linux, I would like to create a file where the contents of the file are dynamically generated by the output of a program. The examples which already exist are /dev/random /dev/urandom, /dev/zero, etc... I would like to create a file such as…
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Can I delete CGI*****-* files in /tmp dir

We have a bunch of different applications running on a web server and some of them started falling over; Quickly checking disk space we realised the tmp folder on a seperate partition had become full - Looking through there's lots and lots of…
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Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve information from environment bootmaster source(s)

Feeling like a complete newbie to puppet (I admit I am very rusty :-) So my manifest/site.pp file contains. file {"/tmp/findme.txt": source => "puppet:///modules/concat/concatfragments.rb" } file { "/etc/pupppetlabs/code/": path =>…
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Directory vs Files for efficient search and retrieval of files

I am working on a website where users have ability to store all kinds of media on the server and there can be any number of users. I thought I would store all the media which users upload like this: MediaRootDIR/UserRootDIR/file.xyz (UserRootDIR is…
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Make a symbolic link of all files and subdirs, Ubuntu 14,04 server

Sorry if this has been asked before. I tried a search but... We would like to make a central collection of symlinks from a number of disparate folders and subdirs and which use unnormalised file naming conventions. I need some mechanism to create a…
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Powershell .lnk deployment/syncing - lnk description attribute

I have been working on a powershell sync script that will be used to control what users have on their desktop (mainly lnk/shortcut files). I have it currently setup to do basic comparisons to add/remove/update the files that are stored locally. The…
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IIS 7.5 - Deployed WebApp can't access network shared's folder / files

I come back with a new question for you guys. :) My project need to work with some important data and print the results. I'm working with a big db and few files located on my company's network. So I need to open them, extract data, etc... But it's…
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get physical disk name for a file

When I opened disk management in Windows Server 2008 I see Disk 8 G: H: Disk 9 H: Disk 10 H: I Now, I have few files in H: drive and I want to know which disk it belongs to. I have to do it because few files in H: have low IO and I want to move…
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