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Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found. How to understand what caused it and how to solve?

I bought a Centurion Nano from the now defunct Alpha Computers, it ships with Alpha OS (that is essentially a tampered Ubuntu): $ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Alpha OS" VERSION="1.0.0 Polaris" ID="alpha-...
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What is the difference between a disk block and a sector?

I know that a sector is the unit in which a track is splitted, but I had this doubt since I was looking for information about the maximum number of pointers that an inode can support. I found that ...
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From where comes the inode number of a file mounted through NFS?

I asked a question on codereview to know if I could safely replace the following code: :inode => [stat.ino, stat.dev_major, stat.dev_minor], which threw NotImplementedError because of jruby not ...
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Zero inodes even after formatting hard disk

I have an external 1Tb harddisk which due to some reason was showing following under df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 0 0 0 - ...
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What is the efficiency of NTFS Junctions?

Long story short, I am using the steamtool application, which was originally developed for the following reasons: Steam by default would save all your games to C:\ SSDs are becoming the new primary ...
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