Filesystem

Is using Visual Basic file enumeration in Powershell Recently it was necessary to clean up a few folders on a client’s file system, that each contained over 5 million files. Those files needed to be compressed into archives, and removed. With 5 million files in each folder, it was unfeasible…

Hey folks, Today we are going to learn the feature of MS-windows called Alternate data stream a.k.a ADS. It is a Windows NTFS’s(New Technology File System) feature since Windows NT , 2000 , windows XP. Before we are going to the details of the ADS, We need to understand what…

“JBD” stands for “Journal Block Device” (https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/pmdajbd2.1.html). “jbd2” is a kernel thread which is started by executing the “kthread_run()” function (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.2.1/source/fs/jbd2/journal.c#L277). The name of the kernel thread has the following pattern “jbd2/[DeviceName]”. The code is part of a kernel module — as you can see in the screenshot below.

The pathlib module is a built-in module in Python 3 that provides an object-oriented way to handle files and directories. This module was introduced in Python 3.4 and provides a more convenient way to work with file paths than the traditional os.path module. Creating Path Objects With pathlib in Python To create a path object, you can…

Glob is a Python module that provides a convenient way to search for files that match a specified pattern. It allows you to use wildcard characters to match files with similar names or extensions. In this tutorial, we will explore the usage of the glob module in Python. Basic Usage of the glob module in Python Glob can…

When it comes to choosing a file system for your computer or server, you have a lot of options to choose from. However, OpenZFS stands out as one of the best file systems available today. In this article, we’ll explore why OpenZFS is the best file system for your needs. …

ROS (Robot Operating System) is a flexible and powerful platform used for building robotic systems software components. At its core, ROS relies on a network of nodes to communicate with each other, and these nodes are organized into packages. …

Contents: Introduction Limitations of Inotify Getting started with Inotify on Linux In the realm of monitoring cloud or on-premises applications and DevOps scripts, we frequently want functionalities such as receiving alerts of file creation, deletion, or modification throughout the file system with time stamps, permissions, and location. …

A file system is one of those implementations that everyone uses but most of not aware of how it works and what is the file system. In this blog, we are going to understand the basics of the Linux file system. And trying to find the answers to why we…