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  2. File-system permissions - Wikipedia

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    Distinct permissions apply to the owner. Files and directories are assigned a group, which define the file's group class. Distinct permissions apply to members of the file's group. The owner may be a member of the file's group. Users who are not the owner, nor a member of the group, comprise a file's others class. Distinct permissions apply to ...

  3. chmod - Wikipedia

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    Note that only the user or the superuser (root) is able to change file permissions. chmod [options] mode[,mode] file1 [file2 ...] [7] Usually implemented options include: -R Recursive, i.e. include objects in subdirectories.-v verbose, show objects changed (unchanged objects are not shown). If a symbolic link is specified, the target object is ...

  4. NTFS links - Wikipedia

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    A typical new file creation event on an NTFS volume, then, simply involves NTFS allocating and creating one new MFT record, for storing the new file entity's file metadata—including, about any of the data clusters assigned to the file, and the file's data streams; one MFT record for a hard link which points to the first newly-created MFT ...

  5. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Wikipedia

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    Source code (e.g., the kernel source code with its header files). /usr/X11R6: X Window System, Version 11, Release 6 (up to FHS-2.3, optional). /var: Variable files: files whose content is expected to continually change during normal operation of the system, such as logs, spool files, and temporary e-mail files. /var/cache: Application cache data.

  6. Hidden file and hidden directory - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a hidden folder (sometimes hidden directory) or hidden file is a folder or file which filesystem utilities do not display by default when showing a directory listing. They are commonly used for storing user preferences or preserving the state of a utility and are frequently created implicitly by using various utilities.

  7. Home directory - Wikipedia

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    A home directory is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system. The specifics of the home directory (such as its name and location) are defined by the operating system involved; for example, Linux / BSD systems use /home/ username or /usr/home/ username and Windows systems since Windows Vista use \Users\ username .

  8. Extended file attributes - Wikipedia

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    They are notably used by the NFS server of the Interix POSIX subsystem in order to implement Unix-like permissions. The Windows Subsystem for Linux added in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update uses them for similar purposes, storing the Linux file mode, owner, device ID (if applicable), and file times in the extended attributes. [27]

  9. Ubuntu - Wikipedia

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    In a networked environment, file sharing between Ubuntu Linux and Windows is possible by Samba client/server software. Host Ubuntu Linux and the guest Windows virtual machines are also virtually networked in KVM, so file sharing between the host and virtual guest machines can also be done by the Samba in the KVM environment.