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  2. Property list - Wikipedia

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    Property list files use the filename extension.plist, and thus are often referred to as p-list files. Property list files are often used to store a user's settings. They are also used to store information about bundles and applications , a task served by the resource fork in the old Mac OS.

  3. Sparse file - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, a sparse file is a type of computer file that attempts to use file system space more efficiently when the file itself is partially empty. This is achieved by writing brief information ( metadata ) representing the empty blocks to the data storage media instead of the actual "empty" space which makes up the block, thus ...

  4. File attribute - Wikipedia

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    Reparse Point (L): The file or directory has an associated re-parse point, or is a symbolic link. Offline (O): The file data is physically moved to offline storage (Remote Storage). Sparse (P): The file is a sparse file, i.e., its contents are partially empty and non-contiguous. Temporary (T): The file is used for temporary storage.

  5. Filesystem in Userspace - Wikipedia

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    A flow-chart diagram showing how FUSE works: Request from userspace to list files (ls -l /tmp/fuse) gets redirected by the Kernel through VFS to FUSE. FUSE then executes the registered handler program (./hello) and passes it the request (ls -l /tmp/fuse).

  6. File size - Wikipedia

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    File size is a measure of how much data a computer file contains or how much storage space it is allocated. Typically, file size is expressed in units based on byte . A large value is often expressed with a metric prefix (as in megabyte and gigabyte ) or a binary prefix (as in mebibyte and gibibyte ).

  7. List of file signatures - Wikipedia

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    Binary Property List file 42 5A 68: BZh: 0 bz2 Compressed file using Bzip2 algorithm 47 49 46 38 37 61 47 49 46 38 39 61: GIF87a GIF89a: 0 gif Image file encoded in the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) [9] 49 49 2A 00 (little-endian) II*␀ 0 tif tiff Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) [10] 4D 4D 00 2A (big-endian) MM␀* 49 49 2B 00 (little ...

  8. List of file formats - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of file formats used by computers, ... Python byte code files; PYO – Python; R ... it is usually 64 bytes in size. (.bca)

  9. lsof - Wikipedia

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    for all files in use by the process, including the executing text file and the shared libraries it is using: the file descriptor number of the file, if applicable; the file's access mode; the file's lock status; the file's device numbers; the file's inode number; the file's size or offset; the name of the file system containing the file;