I read a paper and it used terms cold cache and warm cache. I googled about this terms but I didn't find something useful (only a thread here). What do these terms mean?

During a fresh installation, I accidentally formatted a disk containing datas. I have tried using some tools: testdisk, foremost, but I did not get good results. (see my unsuccessful post on superu...

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 wr...

I am trying to understand the difference between inode bitmap and inode table (from ext2 file system documentation), but I am not getting it. Can any one explain?

I've opened the super-block and group descriptor in an EXT2 filesystem, but I don't know how to read for instance the root directory or files in it... Here's some of what i got fd=open("/dev/sdb2...

I'm hoping to find a C/C++ library that can read a number of files off an ext formatted volume from within an application in Windows. I do not need to mount this volume in a traditional way, all I ...

For a university assignment, we have to modify the ext2 file system to store files in the inode's block pointers if it's smaller than 60 bytes, and move to regular block storage once the file grows...