Questions tagged [filesystem]
The general filesystem in Ubuntu is arranged in a single tree with everything under /. This tag should be used for questions dealing with Ubuntu's layout of files, permissions, and files that reside in special locations on disk. Questions related to a particular filesystem should instead use the specific tag for that (for instance: ext4, btrfs, zfs).
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Diagnosing large usage on WSL volume
I am new to Ubuntu, I just use it through WSL to run Docker. I found that there is around 40GB being used and I'm trying to find out why.
I have run the following commands
df -ah
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Can anyone explain why the Nautilus (file explorer) seems to be extremely slow at times? (includes videos)
Here's a video of folders taking a long time to load -- (display the folders and files) after clicking them in Nautilus.
Keep in mind that this on a machine with:
32GiB RAM
AMD Ryzen™ 7 9700X × 16
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snap permissions browser and thunderbird
I am on Ubuntu 24.10.
I believe I have done something to my installation to mess up Snap permissions. The result is that the default Firefox install, Chromium and Thunderbird cannot upload files from ...
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Linux server is unable to boot properly
My Linux server is unable to boot properly due to a missing filesystem. How do I resolve it?
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How do I configure the Thunar file manager
Xubuntu 22.04, how do I edit/modify the thunar file manager sendto menu?
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How to create a relative Symlink whilst mounted?
I recently bricked my system due to checkinstall. It seems all that is missing is my lib folder.
However I have tried to create a symlink whilst the system is mounted and I get the following symlink: ...
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Nothing inside /usr/bin is recognised - bash: /usr/bin/ls: No such file or directory
I was trying to install cups into the system, using these suggestions:
sudo apt install checkinstall
sudo checkinstall --install=no sudo dpkg -i *.debwell
It was this point that my system was ...
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ZFS filesystem corrupted after deleting old snapshots
I use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with ZFS. A few days ago on, I was running out of space, so I deleted a one year old zfs backup to free up 80+GB of space. I didn't really know what I was doing, and when I saw ...
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Do Ext4 file systems not automatically mount?
I'm trying to use 24.10 Oracular Orial and I have an external USB hard drive which I have tried partitioning as MBR, and I also later tried as GPT. Both cases, I created just 1 partition with fdisk. ...
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Upgrading to 24.04 broke my filesystem
I tried to upgrade from 22 to 24 yesterday. I used apt upgrade and followed the instructions, and I didn't see any errors during the installation.
When I rebooted, the filesystem was broken. No matter ...
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Unable to open subfolder on external drive - input/output error EXT4 partition
Sorry - this has been asked and answered 100 times but here's a new wrinkle...
Helping a buddy transition his world to Linux from Win10.
He has an 8TB external drive. I have made a few NTFS ...
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changing a 755 filesystem to 777 causing an error
chance@chanceOMEN:~$ chmod 777 "/media/chance/NEW NINTEND"
chmod: changing permissions of '/media/chance/NEW NINTEND': Read-only file system
im using ubuntu desktop, and the lock isn't ...
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My disk got corrupted where my ubuntu was installed
So I was transferring my data from hdd to ssd (where ubuntu was installed in separate partition) and meanwhile power cut happened and when I started my pc back it was showing me grub cli.
So I ran ...
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Can I boot Gparted live USB on a USB-C port?
I have an HP Laptop 15-ef1082nr (4S917UA) with the following port specs:
Ports:
1 USB Type-C® 5Gbps signaling rate (supports data transfer only and does not support charging or external
monitors); 2 ...
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Error unmounting filesystem : target is busy
When I format my pendrive, it shows
Error unmounting filesystem
Error unmounting /dev/sdb1: target is busy (udisks-error-quark, 14)
I need to format it, any solution here?
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zfs import was hanging first and now gives an I/O error
I use two external hard disks. They were working fine but yesterday i connected a 4 different disks all at once and was doing lots of data transfers, and
* had to hard boot 4 or 5 times.
That is one ...
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How to backup & restore filesystem metadata/attributes only?
Im currently trying to create a "shallow" backup of my whole filesystem, meaning that I should be able to somehow backup the current full filesystem structure, including mainly file ...
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How can I learn the basic file structure and how to navigate? [duplicate]
Whats the best way to learn the file structure and how to navigate?
Thanks,
Allon
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Files disappearing from ntfs drive
I recently purchased a 4tb nvme to upgrade the existing 2tb drive data drive in my windows machine and in order to transfer my data over I created a small 100gb partition on the 2tb drive put it in my ...
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Did a clean install of Ubuntu 24.04 on HP Elitebook 8440p i7 and now getting random freeze ups
It seems the freeze ups happen during file access either through Files access on the desktop with no other programs running or through other running programs. I can have a browser (ie Chromium) ...
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File system problem
Thanks for your answer to my question "Partition" in GParted. I have a file system problem on Ubuntu 18.04.6 ("failure writing sector ... hd0") that prevents both a boot and any ...
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Can I read other users files in Linux filesystem if I have their username and password without switching or logging into that user?
I know this is possible by switching to root or using 'sudo' but I just want to know if there is any other way. Assume the user doesn't have root privileges.
Scenario:
While playing a CTF challenge, I ...
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How to include a directory in snap filesystem sandboxing?
I use the RAM-disk mounted in /dev/shm a lot, and would like to be able to read files from there from different applications (e.g. web browsers). However, due to sandboxing of snap based applications, ...
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I want df to return the space I want to simulate for a folder
I have a folder /backup whose df -h /backup output shows 200G available space, as I want 0 GB available and I dont want to add that much data in /backup folder. How can I achieve this? I dont want to ...
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What are the reasons, that the 24.04 installer doesn't create sub-volumes, when using btrfs?
After about 15 years, I'm using Ubuntu again. The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop Edition looks fine. Admittedly, I wanted to start with Fedora to some extent, but after a fresh installation, there are some ...
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bin.usr-is-merged, lib.usr-is-merged, sbin.usr-is-merged - what are the folders?
I just noticed such folders in the root folder:
bin.usr-is-merged
lib.usr-is-merged
sbin.usr-is-merged.
What are these?
Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
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QEMU/KVM virtio config filesystem passthrough Ubuntu 24.04. VM and Ubuntu 20.04. host
I have Ubuntu 20.04. as host, with 5 virtual machines:
Ubuntu 20.04.
Ubuntu 22.04.
Ubuntu 24.04.
Fedora 39
Fedora 40
In each I have set:
<filesystem type="mount" accessmode="...
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How much space do I have for the file system?
I need to know how much space I have.
There are two 2TB hard drives. The first has three partitions. The third partition seems to be the filesystem partition and it has 2TB available. In Settings > ...
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Does moving /home require any special considerations
/home is somewhat of a system directory but sub directories within it probably contain the bulk of user data. If I wish to move non system material to a recently added drive, it can be done with ...
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Is it safe to interrupt fsck?
I'm using a 100TB(~2TB used) ext4 HDD for data, but its primary gpt partition table was corrupted so i repair it with the backup partition table via gdisk.
And i tried to mount this disk but failed, ...
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Resizing root filesystem on lvm
I have a 24.04 server what is a VM and has run out of space in the root filesystem.
I have added more space through vCenter and used gparted to expand the partition. However, the root file system is ...
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some file permissions are all question marks
Some files on a thumb drive cannot be accessed nor deleted. What can I do to get rid of the offending files, short of reformatting the drive?
Example with two good and two weird entries:
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Restrict a specific group to access a directory and drive
I have created a group "restricted" and added a user "user1" to this group , how can I restrict this group to access some specified directory and drive.
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How to create partition for QNX6fs?
I want to run RPI with QNX 7.1. I can boot RPI with 1 partition of type FAT32. It has QNX kernel and necessary configuration files. But I want to have 2nd partition of type qnx6fs for to mount root ...
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Two directories with different permission and inode #s but same name
My wife showed me this problem this morning - there are two directories in her Downloads directory that both have the same name but different inode numbers and permissions:
20:09 [roar@roar-IdeaPad3-...
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Read-only in ntfs partition
I use Kubuntu system with several SSD-devices. Most of them use NTFS because I have to use Windows as well.
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 3.2G 3.0M 3.2G ...
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Schrödinger files that Ubuntu can see but thinks don't exist
I have a number of media files backed up from an old phone to a hard drive. I was trying to copy all my backups to another drive. I encountered a contradictory message like "Could not copy file [....
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"Permission denied" even when trying to open file (/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches) as root
When I do cat /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches as root (sudo bash) I get this error:
cat: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied
So how do I see the contents of that file?
()kswapd0 is running at 50% ...
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/var/log/lastlog is huge - how to logrotate it
On my filesystem, the file /var/log/lastlog is huge
ll /var/log/lastlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 494536286056 May 28 17:27 /var/log/lastlog
is there a Ubuntu-native way to logrotate it?
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Help, btrfs not mounting, dev extent overlap with previous dev extent
One of my btrfs file system not mount at boot anmore.
dmesg:
BTRFS error (device dm-7): dev extent devid 3 physical offset 725923790848 overlap with previous dev extent end 725923856384
BTRFS error (...
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How can I upload files directly from a remote server mounted in Ubuntu's file manager?
I'm currently connecting to my institute server from my Ubuntu system by mounting it in the file manager GUI under "Other Locations" in Ubuntu with:
sftp://username@ip_address/
This setup ...
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Recent Files Suddenly Dissappeared - But Are Still There
I have just had a bizarre issue where my files suddenly disappeared whilst creating a folder within Blender to save into the folder containing the vanishing files. (I am about to do a render pass).
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System & Installed apps are not working in Ubuntu 22.04.4
I switched from Windows to Ubuntu and I'm facing very strange errors. Sometimes my applications won't respond (won't open) e.g. VSCode, Firefox, and sometimes even Chrome won't open. Also, even the ...
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NTFS not accessible on Ubuntu Budgie 24.04
I have installed fresh Ubuntu Budgie 24.04. I am unable to access the Windows NTFS filesystem. Initially I was unable to access Windows data. Then I created a new NTFS partition. Initially it was ...
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Very large log files (syslog, kern.log)
I got the warning that I only have 38 MB of disk space left. The reason for this seem to be two huge log files: syslog.1 and kern.log.1 with 388 GB each.
I installed Linux Pop!OS only recently so my ...
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how to fixed ubuntu server 20.04 LTS /dev/mapper/ubuntu/--vg-ubuntu--lv contains a file system with errors, check forced
I am newbie for Linux Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS user.
I have a cases with my Linux Ubuntu PC Server.
When I boot my PC, I got an error with:
/dev/mapper/ubuntu/--vg-ubuntu--lv contains a file system ...
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Chroot into current filesystem?
I need to test out setting up some development tools which has been a pain and messed up my system to have to reinstall for the 9th time. I discovered chroot, this will relief a lot of pain. But I am ...
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Group permissions for writing on a system
I've gone through quite a few posts on this, and I feel I must be doing something quite basic wrong.
I have a system that has mounted an NFS drive. On there, there is a folder owned by a user, ...
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How do I access file and other directory? Home icon missing in 24.04
24.04 ; earlier Home icon was coming on desktop so that I can access file directory
now that is gone somewhere and completely helpless how to access file system?
anyone know how to open file explorer/ ...
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File system is very slow on both my drives
I'm having a strange problem with trying to load things off my drives on Ubuntu 22.04.3. My computer has a 2TB NVMe SSD as its boot drive and a 14 TB hard drive that I store data on. I'm not ...
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