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A file system (or filesystem) is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve and update data, as well as manage the available space on the device(s) which contain it.

A file system (or filesystem) is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve and update data, as well as manage the available space on the device(s) which contain it. A file system organizes data in an efficient manner and is tuned to the specific characteristics of the device. A tight coupling usually exists between the operating system and the file system. Some file systems provide mechanisms to control access to the data and metadata. Ensuring reliability is a major responsibility of a file system. Some file systems allow multiple programs to update the same file at nearly the same time.

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I want to delete exiting partition on a ssd and then create a partition and then a file system on the same

I want to delete existing partition on an ssd and then create a partition and then a file system on the same. How can I do it using a single command based on fdisk?
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extend file system size on cloud server

On my 1and1 root cloud server I'm trying to extend my file system size after an upgrade. I should have 120gb instead of 70gb. I'm not very experienced with filesystem extending I'm on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Steps I took $ pvcreate /dev/sda3 $ vgextend…
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Corrupt `reverse i-search` database: why and how?

I made a recording of this as it's never happened to me before and seemed pretty weird: https://asciinema.org/a/qVSUzkIX2wLia7EzCFhCYHb9Q Under which conditions would the bash completion database become corrupted? Where do the files live so I can…
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1TB harddrive not working in linux

Hai I bought a 1 TB new hard disk. When installed in linux it say's fsck.ext3 file system not found. when i checked the BIOS it detected the hard disk. what to do to solve the problem in linux?. Thank you
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Ansible : format Filesystem subtask fails

I have below task which fails at formatting EBS volume and just do not proceed further. I've checked all the documentation here but I find no issue with ansible task I defined here. --- # tasks file for aws-create-ec2 - name: Set instance file…
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File Server performance with simultaneous read/write operation

I have a WORKGROUP network with 50+ devices, all the computers can access a Windows Server 2008 R2 server which hosts all the media in the network. When one or some of the users are copying files from the server the access to server becomes severely…
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What are all/most ways to enable/disable usage of async file-io in Linux?

To make a long story short, I have two identical servers hosting VMs using VirtualBox and both servers host one VM each nearly setup the same way, only that one is production and the other for internal tests and development. The important thing ist…
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Remote Link on OSX

I have two machines on the same LAN, I usually ssh from one to the other and I was wondering if I could create a symbolic or hard link from a box that points to the other one. I'm using OSX on both PC's Thanks a lot!
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Wish to set file undeletable but updatable

I don't think this is possible on any Linux file system. But I wish to have a feature of setting a file to be undeletable but keeping the file updatable. Note the latter requirement cannot be met with the immutable bit of chattr. This is potentially…
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How to choose appropriate filesystem for my KVM VPS guest?

I'm going to manually install Arch Linux from an ISO image on a KVM VPS that uses SeaBIOS. I plan to use grub2 as the bootloader. My VPS will not hold important data that needs to be backed up. I don't need snapshots. If it has a failure that wipes…
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How does file system selection at hyperviser affect KVM VMs?

I'm new to hypervisors and will be setting up a single host machine with a hyperviser that supports multiple filesystem types (LVM, ZFS, NFS, Glustfs etcetera) - this hypervisor will then run a small number of KVM VMs. I'm a bit confused about the…
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Domain Users Unable to Access Home Directory Without Sharing Folder

So I run a windows 2012 r2 for a client with 20-30 employees. I have created a home directory for each person as a means to save data onto the server. However, recently new users that are added are unable to access their personal folder without the…
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Ubuntu - Allow access to subdirectory and files under a directory, but not give access to the directory itself?

Good day. I have a Server that's running on Ubuntu 14.04 with a LAMP Stack. So far, I've been able to host webpages on it and it's been working great. However, I want to limit what the users see. I have a certain directory downloads where I upload…
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How to fix inode 2 on a FreeBSD ufs filesystem

My FreeBSD 11.1 system keeps panic-ing with this: kernel: panic: ufs_dirbad: /mnt: bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry For such an error most forums suggest an older article…
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When using bash redirect to a file which already exists. When is the file system freed of the original file?

When redirecting output to a file which already exists: $ ls my_file $ dump_all > my_file When does the file system get freed from the space consumed by the original file? (For example the concern could be that there is only space for one copy of…
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