Frequently Asked Questions About Linux / UNIX » filesystem http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq Every answer asks a more beautiful question. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:28:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Linux RAM Disk: Creating A Filesystem In RAM http://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/ 14 Linux Disable Mounting of Uncommon Filesystem http://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 System http://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/ 1 How To Use UUID To Mount Partitions / Volumes Under Ubuntu Linux http://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/ 3 Linux: Recover Corrupted Partition From A Bad Superblock http://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/ 13 Linux Optimize Directories ( File Access Time ) in ext3 Filesystem http://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 filesystem http://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/ 5 Linux / UNIX: Cannot Preserve Ownership Error when Files are Moved or Copied http://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 command http://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) => Directories => Pipes => Sockets => Block [...]]]> 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 http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/copy-command/feed/ 0