Questions tagged [filesystems]
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.
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Windows cannot delete extremely deep/corrupted folder structure
I’m completely stuck with a folder on Windows 11 that refuses to be deleted. Here’s the situation:
Folder path: C:\dev\target_cursed
This folder was generated by a bug in a VSCode GitLab plugin, ...
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Hugo Performance: Thousands of post subdirectories within public directory
I'm going to host a lot of Hugo posts as page bundles(directories) on a ZFS filesystem on a FreeBSD machine.
So there's going to be 100,000 directories(page bundles consist of images and an index.md ...
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Access denied attempting to delete file on Windows Server
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I need to delete a file on a Windows Server, however attempting to delete results in "access denied".
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The server is domain joined.
The file is local (Not on a ...
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How to troubleshoot "Too many open files error" in web server?
I had a server which was based on apache; it was used to serve multiple image tiles of a map. I thought of improving it by shifting it to HTTP3, for this I had to shift to nginx and quick protocol. ...
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Transparently migrate entire filesystem to new volume with minimal downtime
On Linux I have a filesystem on a small physical volume that I need to move to a larger volume. I could take the system single-user and just mv everything, but I wonder if there isn't a way that ...
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Why ext4 is often recommended over XFS as a filesystem choice for Linux users? [closed]
From what I've read, XFS seems to have a lot going for it—it performs well in certain scenarios, is the default for some Linux distributions, and is popular in enterprise settings, which suggests it's ...
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What is the best way to store many small files?
Most filesystems seem to get slow for folders with many small files. I have a lot (100,000 to 1,000,000) of small text or image files (tens to a few hundred kb) and having them all in one large folder ...
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How to deal with large disks when choosing a filesystem?
We are using 15TB disks on our RHEL 8.6 Linux servers. These disks are for the HDFS filesystem. Compared to other disks like 4TB or 8TB, we are noticing some degradation in the logs of the datanode. ...
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upgrading zfs-linux with active zpool and /home mounted to it
I am running zfs-linux on a Linux Mint (LMDE 6) machine for maintaining a RAID-Z2 storage.
The home directory is its own dataset with mountpoint=/home.
zpool/home cannot be unmounted by non-root user. ...
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Filesystem got unmounted after full OS drive on OpenMediaVault7 (Debian 12)
I'm new to this page and im not sure where to get help. I hope this would be an appropriate place.
TLDR: Docker overflowed server OS storage, after doing docker prune, i realised that my mounted ...
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iscsi target with multiple initiators [duplicate]
I want to get a zvol created on zfs and want to get two initiators connected to this zvol via iscsi. I tried that and on one of the initiators I used fdisk to create the ext4 filesystem over it and ...
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XFS uses more space that amount of stored files [duplicate]
We have an XFS volume mounted on RHEL9.5 (5.14.0-503.22.1.el9_5.x86_64) with only 88K files on it:
$ find /mnt -type f | wc -l
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The file system reports ~200GB of free space. However, the total - ...
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In the XFS file system, does the ls command (syscall getdents) access the disk, or is there a cached directory structure in memory? [closed]
Just for test, I created and mounted the same XFS file system on two hosts based on a shared device (pmem).Host A created a file in its mounted directory and executed the sync command to ensure that ...
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Should datasets be mounted inside directories in ZFS for Linux?
On my recently set up machine I use ZFS under Linux Mint (LMDE 6) for creating storage pools and using the ZFS filesystem.
The specific storage setup is four 1 TB HDD arranged in RAID-Z2 topology.
The ...
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overlapping disks after partition extension
The machine I'm working with runs Ubuntu 20.046 LTS and has two HDD plugged. The initial setup was following
I wanted to use sdb to extend ubuntu-vg-ubuntu-lv which would make a total of about 5.3T. ...
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