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A secondary drive or partition won't mount, or Haiku reports filesystem inconsistencies on a BFS volume. Here's how to diagnose the mount failure and run BFS's own consistency check safely.
A practical guide to viewing and setting file attributes, building a saved query, and turning that query into a self-updating virtual folder in Tracker.
A complete walkthrough backing up a Haiku installation using BFS attributes and standard file-copying tools, plus what to know about restoring packagefs-managed system data specifically.
A live query doesn't just return files matching a condition once — it keeps the result set current automatically, as files are created, changed, or deleted, for as long as the query stays open.
BFS treats extended attributes as first-class, indexable data — turning ordinary file queries into something closer to a database lookup, decades before this became a mainstream idea.