What are the advantages of the Unix file system structure
If I install an application in Linux for example Debian/Gnu Linux, the files of the applications are copied to many different directories in the file system.
filesystems
View physical location of a file/directory on a hard disk
Is there any Linux program which offers the same (or some of the) functionality of Sysinternals DiskView, especially being able to view to physical location of a file on a hard disk?
Directory listing not fully sorted
I have the following directory listing on a Debian Linux system. However, one strange thing is that the file populate.sql does not seem to be sorted with the rest.
How can I make a special file that executes code when read from
Most files on a Linux system are normal files, i.e. they are saved on disk and reading from them just reads from a specified chunk of memory on the disk. How can I make something that behaves like a file in terms of being able to read from it as one would a normal file, … Read more
Bulk remove a large directory on a ZFS without traversing it recursively
I want to remove the contents of a zfs datasets subdir. It’s a large amount of data. For the pool “nas”, the path is /nas/dataset/certainFolder
Does any file system implement Copy on Write mechanism for CP?
We have seen OS doing Copy on Write optimisation when forking a process. Reason being that most of the time fork is preceded by exec, so we don’t want to incur the cost of page allocations and copying the data from the caller address space unnecessarily.
Write-only permission for a directory doesn’t allow to rename (move) files inside?
In fact, I would like to ask more general question — “what does write permission for a directory allow you to do exactly?” — but let’s approach it with a concrete example.
What’s the difference between ‘hier(7)’ and ‘file-hierarchy(7)’ man pages?
Both hier(7) and file-hierarchy(7) man pages claim to describe the conventional file system hierarchy. However, there are some differences between them. For example, hier(7) describes /opt and /var/crash, but file-hierarchy(7) does not. What are the differences between these two descriptions. Which one do real Linux systems use?
Most unix-like filesystem that can be mounted under windows and Mac OS X
I’ve recently purchased a usb stick which I will be using to share data between me and my colleagues.
How to mount ufs file system under Debian testing?
In order to mount my /dev/sda4 under /mnt/ufs_mount on Debian Testing , i have tried the following commands (it works fine under Debian Jessie):