Questions tagged [inode]
Data structures used to store metadata for each file on a Unix/Linux filesystem.
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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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"Disk quota exceeded" when writing to /tmp, but plenty of space (linux)
i have a VPS. It's managed with the notorious parallels plesk.
today i started seeing messages (via wordpress at first, but also from the command line shell), saying: "Disk quota exceeded".
user@...
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Analyse allocated space in Ext4 partition to improve data recovery efficiency
I'm trying to use Lubuntu to recover as much data as possible from a failing 4TB hard disk drive.
According to GParted the main partition, formatted in Ext4, contains only 553GB of data. I attempted ...
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tail -f not tracking file changes
I was recently looking into using tail -f to monitor some text files like so: tail -f /var/sometext.
However, when I did some testing, it doesn't seem to work. What I did was I created a new file ...
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Will long time ext4lazyinit damage the drive? Why initializing inode tables in ext4 (no need any kinda init in NTFS)? etc
I never pay attention on ext4lazyinit before. But today, after I format my 4TB external USB harddrive and the first mount, the led light keeps blinking without any writes and reads. I figured out that ...
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Is it possible to find all files with a given inode? Efficiently?
It is possible to find all the paths to a file with a given inode, in general, using find's -inum option. But this has awful performance for typical filesystems. What options are there to improve ...
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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
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How to change the inode size on an EXT3 partition?
The setup:
For my dual-boot laptop, I have bought a large hard drive to use as external USB solution. I decided to use EXT3 as filesystem, thinking to use Ext2IFS to access the drive from Windows (as ...
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How do I modify an ext filesystem item given its inode number?
How do I modify a file/directory given their inode numbers?
Those inodes do not appear on a mounted filesystem as traversable directories / readable files and as such are undiscoverable by find ...
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