file system

The other day I set up a fresh installation of Linux Mint, and after a couple hours my desktop environment broke. After restarting, I ended up in busybox with EXT4 file system corruption and I/O errors. I’ve tried everything I could think of (which isn’t a lot, I’m new to Linux) but even...

When I started Linux I found the directory structure confusing, especially directories like /etc, /usr and /var. So I tried to write a structured explanation of: • What each directory does • Common beginner mistakes • How FHS organizes everything If anyone experienced wants to point out...

Firstly many thanks in advance for any advice given and apologies for the length of post. After many years (20+) of using MS Windows as my OS of choice due to it’s simplistic set-up, organisation and management basically “Plug & Play”… I’ve now decided to migrate all my systems to Linux… namely...

Formatted my drive btrfs some times ago. Added some files from my Windows machine. Now I can't modify the folders or contents in my linux machine. Tried ntfsfix. Results into Mounting volume... NTFS signature is missing. FAILED Attempting to correct errors... NTFS signature is missing. FAILED...

Hello everyone. I've dipped my toes in Linux occasionally for the past few years, though I've been a Windows power-user for the vast majority of my time working with computers. I'm heavily considering switching to Linux as my daily driver, though I want to get an idea of how to do the things I...

This is the second time I crashed our department servers. :-( Really don't know why. The previous configuration was: We had a persistent memory namespace (/dev/pmem0) that was mounted at /mnt/pmem. We wanted to change it to Mixed Mode. So we unmounted this file directory ($ umount /mnt/pmem)...

Hello there! I cannot say I'am a newbie in Linux (i have been using it for a two years), but recently i bought a SD card for my laptop on Fedora Linux. And everything just works fine: i edited the /etc/fstab file to mount my sd drive at /doodisk directory automatically. But i cannot change...

Is there any maintained applications which provide a layered sandbox filesystem for Linux? Similar to what Sandboxie does in Windows. Here is an example of what I am talking about, not updated in 5 years. In simple English, I am looking for something that would allow me to install packages...

Hello to everyone. I've just installed for the first time ubuntu 20.04 lts. I don't have a previous experience with the os except some really basic things. After the installation I followed step by step this video https: //youtu.be/MNX7HgcWqHc up the point 7 included. So my modification where...

Hello All, Want to know is there any concept in Linux like windows C drive, D drive etc..(partition) Please let me know. Thanks, Ravi

As the question describes, I wanna add my Kali Linux Partition to Manjaro's fstab File, so that it automounts on Login..... :3 How is this accomplished.....? :3 Good GOD, that Stromboli made me full..... :P Thanks for any help guys..... :3

Hi, I have 1.96 TB sized folder on a hard disk and I want to upload it to the server from my MAC PC using SSH. What is the quickest and effective way to do it?

I have been using BTRFS RAID 1 for data and meta-data with two hard disk drives for a while now. This set up is on my network storage server. My desktops simply runs ext4 (not a fan of LVM yet). I am using two 1TB HDD totalling 1TB capacity (no surprises as using RAID 1); if I was to add...

Dear Forum Users, I recently start learning OS Linux and I have few question about corrupted sections on file system. I would be grateful if you could help me. My case next: 1. I deployed VM Linux Ubuntu (version 14, x32 bit) through vagrant on VirtualBox. OS work correct. 2. I found...