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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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Storage Spaces: Will removing a used USB 3.0 retain the data in a 2-way mirror setup?

So I've just realized that the ReFS filesystem, although promising in a Storage Space solution, doesn't have certain NTFS features that I need. So I'm contemplating going back to NTFS. Problem is that with removing a Storage Space, all the files…
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Moving folder of files from CentOS server to Ubuntu Server

I have a production server and a development server. Problem is the development server only has 20GB diskspace and about 8GB available. The folder of files I'm trying to move is 6GB(ish). I've tried to zip the folder and download it to the…
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HUGE ammount of duplicate files in this directory

I maintain our companies SBS2011 server, and I have duplicate file reports emailed to me on a monthly basis. I've noticed an increasing build up of duplicated files in the following directories: NT…
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Renaming files - Regex needed

I have 640 files in the following form string02_01.ext, string02_02.ext, string02_03.ext ... I need to rename all of them so that every 40 items it changes pattern, for instance first 40s: a0b0c0.ext, a1b0c0.ext, a2b0c0.ext ... second 40s:…
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Excel file on Windows client, is it possible to allow another user read-only if the file is already open?

I have a spreadsheet on a Windows 2003 R2 server. The clients are all Windows 7 using Excel 2010. If a remote user opens the spreadsheet first then any other "local" user gets access denied if they try to open the file afterwards. By "remote" I mean…
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Domain wide deletion of Temporary Internet Files in IE 7

What is the best way and how would you go about the domain wide deletion of Temporary Internet Files in IE 7 per machine per user? It would be nice to be able to do this on demand but some kind of Group Policy solution would be good…
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Puppet variables, defaults, merging and a template

During the task of writing a module, I found out that I have a huge amount of configurable parts. To better organize the module (for the sake of read- and maintainability), I have chosen to split template files up. As those template parts/fragments…
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locking type 1 initialisation failed

This is Sam. I have been working on a RHEL 5.1.19 virtual machine hosted on my workstation. I accidentally happened to remove a logical volume. Since then i was getting an error "locking type 1 initialisation failed" when i tried running any LVM…
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Shared Drive - locked for edit behavior with MS Office documents

I suspect every company has, out of necessity, one or more spreadsheets on a shared drive that several people access/edit on a regular basis. Inevitibly users try to open the document at the same time and get messages about the file being locked…
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How to access a file or directory from another server without copying it over?

Sorry if this is a dumb question. I have my reasons for wanting to do this. I am looking for a way to possibly access directories that are dependencies without actually having to copy them to my active server. Is there a known way of doing…
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Any debugfs command to set file capability?

I need an executable inside an ext2 loop filesystem to have the CAP_NET_ADMIN (cap_net_admin) file capability set. If it is possible with debugfs, what exactly would be the commands I would type in? If not possible with debugfs, is there another…
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Can't find a process that is writing huge files to my disk

While clearing up my harddrive, I ran into a directory called, c:\logs that had huge files in it. The first one, called debuglog.txt is 9gb and contains the following…
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Monitoring file system activity of a process

Under Windows 7, how can I monitor all filesystem activity made by a specific process? Goal is to identify, which and when config files of a server process get loaded.
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Splitting Multiple Files in Windows

We have a 21TB LUN full of images that are approx 600K in size in multiple sub folders on the disk. We are trying to split the 21TB LUN into 8 smaller LUNs that are about 2.6TB a piece in order to process the images more effectively. My question is…
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nginx hidden file deny configuration?

I am using the below standard config to block download of hidden files from nginx : #Prevent (deny) Access to Hidden Files with Nginx location ~ /\. { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; …
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