Frequently Asked Questions About Linux / UNIX » filesystem http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq Every answer asks a more beautiful question. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:38:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mac Os X: Mount NFS Share / Set an NFS Clienthttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apple-mac-osx-nfs-mount-command-tutorial/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apple-mac-osx-nfs-mount-command-tutorial/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:59:16 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=8977 How do I access my enterprise NAS server by mounting NFS filesystem onto my Mac OS X based system using GUI and command line based tools?]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apple-mac-osx-nfs-mount-command-tutorial/feed/ 19 Linux incrond inotify: Monitor Directories For Changes And Take Actionhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-inotify-examples-to-replicate-directories/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-inotify-examples-to-replicate-directories/#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:04:15 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=8437 I want to copy (rsync to remote server) a directory tree whenever file uploaded or deleted in /var/www/html/upload/ directory under Linux operating systems for backup purpose and/or load balancing purpose without getting into complex file sharing setup such as NFS or GFS iscsi storage. How do I monitor /var/www/html/upload/ and its subdirectory for new files and executes rsync command to make copy back to www2.example.com:/var/www/html/upload/?]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-inotify-examples-to-replicate-directories/feed/ 20 Linux RAM Disk: Creating A Filesystem In RAMhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-linux-ram-disk-filesystem/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-linux-ram-disk-filesystem/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:23:49 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=6651 Software RAM disks use the normal RAM in main memory as if it were a partition on a hard drive rather than actually accessing the data bus normally used for secondary storage such as hard disk. How do I create and store a web cache on a RAM disk to improve the speed of loading pages under Linux operating systems?]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-linux-ram-disk-filesystem/feed/ 19 Linux Disable Mounting of Uncommon Filesystemhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-disable-mounting-of-uncommon-filesystem/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-disable-mounting-of-uncommon-filesystem/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:55:37 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=5713 How do I disable mounting of uncommon file systems such as hfs, udf, cramfs etc under Fedora or CentOS / RHEL / Redhat Enterprise Linux?]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-disable-mounting-of-uncommon-filesystem/feed/ 2 Solaris UNIX Configure Disk Quota For UFS File Systemhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/solaris-unix-disk-quota-tutorial/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/solaris-unix-disk-quota-tutorial/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:04:53 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=5119 How do I configure file system quotas to control how much available storage space can be used on a given UFS file system (such as /export/home) under Solaris UNIX operating systems? ]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/solaris-unix-disk-quota-tutorial/feed/ 2 How To Use UUID To Mount Partitions / Volumes Under Ubuntu Linuxhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-finding-using-uuids-to-update-fstab/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-finding-using-uuids-to-update-fstab/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:09:54 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=1908 Q. Can you explain UUID concept related to Linux ext3 partitions and storage devices? How do I update /etc/fstab using UUID under Ubuntu Linux or any other Linux distro?]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-finding-using-uuids-to-update-fstab/feed/ 8 Linux: Recover Corrupted Partition From A Bad Superblockhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/recover-bad-superblock-from-corrupted-partition/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/recover-bad-superblock-from-corrupted-partition/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:33:07 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=1429 Q. How can I Recover a bad superblock from a corrupted ext3 partition to get back my data? I'm getting following error:

/dev/sda2: Input/output error
mount: /dev/sda2: can't read superblock

How do I fix this error?]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/recover-bad-superblock-from-corrupted-partition/feed/ 24 Linux Optimize Directories ( File Access Time ) in ext3 Filesystemhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/tunning-linux-ext3-filesystem/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/tunning-linux-ext3-filesystem/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:08:23 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/tunning-linux-ext3-filesystem/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/tunning-linux-ext3-filesystem/feed/ 18 How to: Find the inode size of an ext2 / ext3 filesystemhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-show-contents-of-filesystem-superblock-inode/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-show-contents-of-filesystem-superblock-inode/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:04:18 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-show-contents-of-filesystem-superblock-inode/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-show-contents-of-filesystem-superblock-inode/feed/ 6 Linux / UNIX: Cannot Preserve Ownership Error when Files are Moved or Copiedhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-cp-mv-filecopy-move-error/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-cp-mv-filecopy-move-error/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:08:33 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-cp-mv-filecopy-move-error/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-cp-mv-filecopy-move-error/feed/ 0 Examining the Linux / FreeBSD / UNIX filesystem with ls commandhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ls-command-to-examining-the-filesystem/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ls-command-to-examining-the-filesystem/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:15:51 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ls-command-to-examining-the-filesystem/ Character devices => Regular files => Sym links (symbolic links) [...]]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ls-command-to-examining-the-filesystem/feed/ 0 Linux Copy File Command [ cp Command Examples ]http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/copy-command/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/copy-command/#comments Mon, 29 May 2006 21:04:48 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=1088 How do I copy files under Linux operating systems? How do I make 2nd copy of a file?]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/copy-command/feed/ 3 MySQL error 28 and solutionhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mysql-error-28-and-solution/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mysql-error-28-and-solution/#comments Thu, 25 May 2006 01:04:00 +0000 nixcraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/faq/mysql-error-28-and-solution.php http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mysql-error-28-and-solution/feed/ 6 Linux Kernel panic VFS Unable to mount root fs and solutionhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-kernel-panic-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-and-solution/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-kernel-panic-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-and-solution/#comments Wed, 03 May 2006 14:51:00 +0000 nixcraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/faq/linux-kernel-panic-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-and-solution.php http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-kernel-panic-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-and-solution/feed/ 6 Linux / UNIX: Delete a filehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-unix-delete-remove-file/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-unix-delete-remove-file/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:35:00 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/faq/linuxunix-delete-file.php How do I delete a file under Linux / UNIX / BSD / AIX / HP-UX operating system?]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-unix-delete-remove-file/feed/ 60