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• Abnormal hangs and restarts Ubuntu 8.04

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  Hi, I am using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and seeing the following behaviors: The system hangs after a while and becomes completely unresponsive. The system sometimes restarts itself ! Can you please help me identify what is the problem? Also please mention where should I look for the possible cause of this… >>> More

• Linux: Why to change inode size?

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  Hello. Tune2fs allows to change inode size from default 128 bytes to almost anything (but it should be power of two). What can the the reasons of changing default inode size? Here http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-7433 is written, that this can be done to be able to store ACL attributes inside… >>> More

• Remove a file on linux using the inode number

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  If you create a file on UNIX/linux with special chars, like touch \"la*, you can't remove it with rm "la*. You have to use the inode number(you can if you add the \ before the name, I know, but you'd have to guess as a user that it was used in the file creation). I checked the manpage for rm, but… >>> More

• Does smbfs create constant inode numbers?

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  If I use smbfs to mount a filesystem, will the inodes always be the same for each file? Or am I in danger of the inodes changing when I mount the fs again or if the remote system reboots? >>> More

• Maximum file size given a particular inode structure?

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  Suppose a UNIX file system has some constraints--say, 2 KB blocks and 8B disk addresses. What is the maximum file size if inodes contain 13 direct entries, and one single, double, and triple indirect entry each? >>> More