We have a smart media card with a linux install on it that we need to duplicate. We created an img with DD and then used dd to write the img back to a couple of new smart media cards. We have compared the MD5 checksum of both the original and the new copies and they are different. Here is what we used: dd if=/dev/sdb of=myimage.img d...
There's a file that I would like to make sure does not grow larger than 2 GB (as it must run on a system that uses ext 2). What's a good way to check a file's size bearing in mind that I will be writing to this file in between checks? In particular, do I need to worry about buffered, unflushed changes that haven't been written to disk ...
Curious as to the inode data structure differences between 128-byte ext2 and 256-byte ext3 file-systems. I have been using this reference for ext2, 128-byte inodes: http://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/ext2.html#INODE-TABLE. I have been unable to find a similar resource for ext3, 256-byte inodes. I have cursorily checked /usr/include/linux/...
Does the symfony cache system handle ext2 32000 files in the same directory limitation ? I have 80000 users and i want to cache their profiles but do symfony cache system handle the ext2 limitation ? i'm also posting for the others who will face the same problem. ...
Why are there no good drivers for Windows for reading ext2/3/4 filesystems? Googling around indicates that there's 2 or 3 out there, but all of them have problems. Is there some technical inconsistency that makes it difficult to correctly code up something that would enable me to open up My Computer and work with an extN partition just...