Hello guys, I want to mount some internal and external NTFS drives in CentOS 5.2, preferably automatically upon boot-up. Doesn't matter if it's read/write or read-only, but read/write would be preferred, if it's safe. Edit: Thanks for all answers, I summarized them below =) ...
I've got a project that was written in BASIC. I'm not sure of the exact reason, but the app will not function except when being run from a FAT-16 file system. I'd rather try to set up and environment that will support this app in a modern OS (Vista/XP) instead of rewriting it. Does anyone know how to get an app like this running in...
Concrete use case: In the Eclipse IDE, new 'plugins' can be added by copying a plugin's file(s) into the $ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins directory. However, I want to keep my original Eclipse installation 'clean' without additional plugins because I want to run this basic installation on its own at times. What is a way of avoiding having to copy...
I am trying to use the Directory.GetFiles() method to retrieve a list of files of multiple types, such as mp3's and jpg's. I have tried both of the following with no luck: Directory.GetFiles("C:\\path", "*.mp3|*.jpg", SearchOption.AllDirectories); Directory.GetFiles("C:\\path", "*.mp3;*.jpg", SearchOption.AllDirectories); Is there a ...
Please can someone advice what is the best place (path) to put some application data which should be accessible and editable by all users. This is considering both Windows XP and Windows Vista and i expect that change in any file of above path does NOT trigger UAC! ...
I've written a small test application using the .Net FileSystemWatcher to keep an eye on a directory. When I copy a large-ish (a few Mb) file into that directory I get the following events listed (see screenshot - and ignore the Delete event to begin with). I get a created event (as expected), but then two changed events (about 0.7 se...
In a Linux embedded application I'm developing, there is the need to record some events that happen from time to time. These records are saved on a MTD flash device and once written there is no need to change them or do efficient searches, but read access is required to show the data back to the user. A big problem is that power can go a...
My primary partition has become full on Debian and I don't appear to be able to resize it while the system is running... How can I make space on this partition? Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 259M 259M 0 100% / tmpfs 443M 0 443M 0% /lib/init/rw udev ...
On NTFS there is a nice but mostly unused feature called "Alternate Data Streams" (ADS) which I recently used in a hobby-dev project. I am thinking of porting this project to Linux, but I do not know if any Filesystem on linux has such a feature? ...
I am considering to adopt ZFS and I would be happy to know your experience in both production and testing environment. ...
I was wondering as to the practicalities of storing an in memory tree structure as directory tree for persistence purposes. In my case he target filesystem will be ZFS, and once the structure has been created it will be accessed by multiple processes infrequently. How performant is using a Directory Tree as a mechanism of persistence fo...
I've been looking at the DropBox Mac client and I'm currently researching implementing a similar interface for a different service. How exactly do they interface with finder like this? I highly doubt these objects represented in the folder are actual documents downloaded on every load? They must dynamically download as they are needed...
Is there a tool that creates a diff of a file structure, perhaps based on an MD5 manifest. My goal is to send a package across the wire that contains new/updated files and a list of files to remove. It needs to copy over new/updated files and remove files that have been deleted on the source file structure? ...
I search an implementation of a network (or distributed) file system like NFS in Java. The goal is to extend it and do some research stuff with it. On the web I found some implementation e.g. DJ NFS, but the open question is how mature and fast they are. Can anyone purpose a good starting point, has anyone experience with such things? ...
I noticed when a file is executed on Windows (.exe or .dll), it is locked and cannot be deleted, moved or modified. Linux, on the other hand, does not lock executing files and you can delete, move, or modify them. Why does Windows lock when Linux does not? Is there an advantage to locking? ...
How does Windows with NTFS perform with large volumes of files and directories? Is there any guidance around limits of files or directories you can place in a single directory before you run into performance problems or other issues? e.g. is a folder with 100,000 folders inside of it an ok thing to do ...
I am trying to use a StreamReader to read a file, but it is always in use by another process so I get this error: The process cannot access the file '\arfjwknasgmed17\C$\FLAG CONDITION\CP-ARFJN-FLAG.XLS' because it is being used by another process. Is there a way I can read this without copying it? Or is that my only option?...
Currently all our files are stored on a windows network drive and with 15 members of staff and 3 external workers, file control is beggining to get a bit of nightmare. Even though we have a policy in place people still seem to save file to their pcs, make changes copy them back without notifying anyone, send files via email instead of it...
How to get the File Directory of a file (C:\myfolder\subfoler\mydoc.pdf). I also want to add the size of the subfolders, and finally the main folder size. This is for a .NET CLR that I need to integrate with SQL Server 2005 for a SSRS report. Thanks. ...
What is a good resource to get started with Windows file system driver development for a newbie? ...