It started with a phone call. Could we build a Linux box that would mount and read a DEC drive and make the data available to NT workstations via Samba? The answer was “I'll have to get back to you.” ...

Question, on a 2TB drive how much space is wasted by using normal amount of inodes instead of largefile or largefile4, I created my filesystems with normal but I only have files in the 100MB to 4GB ...

I bought some new kit for a Linux HTPC. It has a 320g as one of its drives. Last night Debian formatted the drive and I didn't think of the bytes-per-inode setting since I figured it would ...

It doesn’t take very much time working on a Unix system before your attention is drawn to the mysteries of the inode, especially these days with the concept of metadata getting so much public ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...

Some files on a Linux system can appear in more than one location. Follow these instructions to find and identify these "identical twins" and learn why hard links can be so advantageous. Identifying ...

----在SCO Unix操作系统中，制作系统应急Boot / Root软盘是保障系统安全的重要措施之一，而且是其他的大多数紧急处理方法的基本前提。因此，对于系统维护员而言，及时准确的制作出系统的应急软盘是一项极其重要的工作和任务。 ---- 故障表现：在SCO Openserver 5.0.0 ...