Why can’t I remove the ‘.’ directory?
I tried removing the ‘.’ directory. I thought I could just delete my working directory without having to go into a parent directory.
filesystems
Finding sparse files?
Is there a straightforward way to find all the sparse files on my system, or in a particular directory tree?
How to get mount point of filesystem containing given file
I am looking for a quick way to find the mount point of the file system containing a given FILE. Is there anything simpler or more direct than my solution below?
Why is a text file taking up at least 4kB even when there’s just one byte of text in it?
For some reason, when I make a text file on OS X, it’s always at least 4kB, unless it’s blank. Why is this? Could there be 4,000 bytes of metadata about 1 byte of plain text?
ZFS under Linux, does it work?
Could I get ZFS to work properly in Linux?
btrfs ERROR: error during balancing – No space left on device
My Kubuntu 12.04 system ran out of space on on the root partition and will not boot. The command df -h shows a lot of space available (with only 37% used):
Why size reporting for directories is different than other files?
I was wondering why an empty directory occupied 4096 bytes of space and I have seen this question. It is stated that space is allocated in blocks and hence, the size of a new directory is 4096 bytes.
ISO file readonly?
I have an ISO file and I mount it under /mnt/isofile. Then I copied this file to another folder. But the contents are read-only and belonged to root. I tried to use chmod and chown. But it prompts with the message:
Format external hard drive to linux compatible file system
How do I format my external hard drive to a very Linux compatible file system?
What are the advantages of Btrfs for end users?
Btrfs has begun to gain some momentum in replacing ext4 as the default filesystem of choice for a few distributions such as Fedora Core 16. It is experimentally available in a number of other distributions (From Wikipedia: openSUSE 11.3, SLES 11 SP1, Ubuntu 10.10, Sabayon Linux, RHEL6,MeeGo, Debian 6.0, and Slackware 13.37). I’m certainly not ready to convert all my workplace servers over (my file system choice is generally conservative), I’m considering using it at home and on select non-mission critical production machines at work.