Filesystem

A cross-platform solution for viewing files from its URL when you need to attach headers data — Introduction Recently I spent an avoidable amount of time trying to find a solution for this problem: accessing a file via its URL and displaying it locally on the device by attaching headers data to the request. During my research I came upon different types of potential solutions that unfortunately didn’t…

“In Linux, everything is a file”, you’ve probably heard of this before or even noticed it yourself when you used linux for the first time: What is inside /dev? Those are devices What ? devices are files ? and what is inside /proc ? Those are processes What ? I…

The machine that hosts the shared resource acts as a server, and the machine requesting the resource acts as a client. For easier understanding, the following assumptions are made. Location of shared resource at server: /shared/vm-images/vm.qcow2 Server IP: 10.128.2.9 Client IP: 10.128.2.10 Server Install nfs-kernel-server using apt install nfs-kernel-server Open /etc/exports, add the client address and the shared resource directory. For example: /shared/vm-images 10.128.2.10(rw,insecure,async,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,crossmnt)

Python is a popular language for developing a wide range of applications. Docker is a powerful tool for deploying and managing applications in containers. When it comes to running Python executables using Docker, there are a few steps you need to follow to ensure that your code runs smoothly. …

Finally, I released a console tools for working with files service. In a server (service node) the file are stored in generated shadownames. The shadownames are generated on client, and they look like this: zxce.12 .Directories and real filenames are stored on client in separate config files (~/.privateness/keys/files.json and directories.json)…

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. …

“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.

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…

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…