Questions tagged [ext2]
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Is there a way to make ext-filesystems use less space for themselves in Linux?
I have a bunch of external and internal HDDs that I use on a Linux system. I only have Linux systems, so using a Linux file-system would only make sense, right? However I'm currently using NTFS ...
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Ubuntu Server: Cannot delete file "x", Structure needs cleaning
I have a game server hosted on my Ubuntu Server 16.04 and out of the blue I cannot start/restart it because of the following file:
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? proceduralmap.3000....
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Accessing EXT2 drive from "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows"
I am wondering if it is possible to access a EXT2 formatted partition from Bash in Windows 10. I already have "Ext2 IFS For Windows", so I am able to read/write to this partition from Windows explorer ...
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Two identical discs differ in allocated/free space
I have two discs labeled T1 and T2 with ext2 filesystem on them connected through USB port into computer.
They are identical copies, I synchronize them regularly with rsync -ahvt --delete --progress ...
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Creating Ext2 partition using free windows tool
I want to intsall Linux on my hard drive on a seperate patition. Unfortunately, I can't find a free tool that will format a partition to ext2/3/4, and I can't access the windows made partition from an ...
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On a FAT32 filesystem there was a file with ext2 filesystem image. Now it's truncated. How do I restore?
How do I restore ext2 filesytem that was stored on FAT32 volume in a file which got truncated? Is there analogue of reiserfs's --rebuild-tree option to restore filesystem from content?
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"cannot create hard link X to Y: Operation not permitted" on ext2 drive from cygwin cp -al
/cygdrive/d/ is a USB hard disk formatted as ext2 and mounted with ext2fsd.
When I try cp -al /cygdrive/d/X /cygdrive/d/Y where X is a file, I get the error in the title.
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Using a memory stick containing multiple Ext2 filesystems in Windows?
I have a memory stick which I have formatted to contain two ext2 partitions on my Ubuntu computer, one 2 GB and one 6 GB. I would like to use them on my Windows 7 computer now.
I am aware of Ext2Fsd ...
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Running fsck from cygwin shell?
I need to be able to check / fix file system errors on SD cards from a win7 box. I had hoped to use e2fsck from cygwin but am having some issues getting this to work. (SD cards are used to boot ...
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Accesing EXT3 partition form WIN XP
I have WIN XP partition on my PC. It is used from time to time, but I need access to one particular EXT3 formatted Linux filesystem in read/write mode.
Sourceforge offers Ext2Fsd. Nice, but it works ...
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How to create ext2 image without superuser rights?
I need to generate several ext2 images.
The obvious way to do that is to create an image, mount it & copy the content. But it requires root permissions twice (to chown the files and to mount the ...
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ext4 integration in windows 8 - access through explorer
I know there are similar questions; however none I could find that addressed accessing ext4 through explorer, most others simply use a third party application.
However, my question is; is there a way ...
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FreeNAS 8 and ext fs
i'm trying out freenas8 for my personal NAS, i have lots of data that was in an ubuntu server, but somehow i never got the file sharing right. on freenas things just worked. i installed on usb, tried ...
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Bad blocks detected by fsck. SMART says disk is good
Using Ubuntu 12.04, I booted into maintenance mode and selected fsck from the menu. This ran a filesystem check on all my volumes (all ext2), mounting them read/write by default. After the tests ...
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Which file-system is good for movable disk between many different OSs?
I often use movable disk (USB) to change data between different OSs, almost four kinds -- Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD. Obviously, VFAT is supported in all kinds of OSs. But the short is: It ...
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Mount ext2 file on Mac
I want to mount a virtual disk file that has been formatted with ext2. I want to do
sudo mount -t ext2 -o loop my-file mount-point
ext2fuse and macfuse from MacPorts are installed. I can't find an ...
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Create a multiboot USB drive with NTFS or ext2
I am trying to create a multiboot flash drive, but I don't want to use fat 16 due to the huge performance cliff between fat 16 and other file systems like ext 2 or NTFS. I need to have multiple linux ...
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How can I get access to EXT2, EX3 and EXT4 partitions on Windows 7?
I tried all programs recommended to mount Linux partitions like EXT2 or EXT3 or even EXT4 but no one can do well on Windows 7 32 bit.
I want to access read-write, is there a program that can do this?
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Command: How to format Ext2/Ext3 with Cygwin? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to format Ext2 in WinXP?
I just installed Cygwin, then i want to format my usb drive to Ext2/3/4 or any other Linux FS.
What do i need?
And, what is the command?
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How to format Ext2 in Windows XP?
I want to format my USB stick to ext2. I have following tools installed. But don't know how to use them for my case:
Cygwin – I'm just a starter and not surely know how to use. (mkfs is also ...
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Understanding ext2 FileSystem [closed]
I am trying to find deleted inodes in the ext2 filesystem. And this is the approach that I am taking. However I feel that I am doing something wrong.
I am first seeking 1024 bytes to the start of the ...
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ext2 or ext3 filesystem with the most available space
First of all, security is important so I want to use a reasonable size of inode backups and things like that, whatever those mean...
I want to use ext2 or ext3 for a common partition between Win7 and ...
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View bad blocks on mounted ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
I've ran fsck -c on the (unmounted) partition in question a while ago. The process was unattended and results were not stored anywhere (except the bad block inode).
Now I'd like to get bad block ...
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Can't access Ubuntu partition in XP even with tools
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 to dual-boot with XP Home on my Asus 1005HA netbook. The main hard drive is an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. I've tried all the common tools for accessing the Ubuntu partition from inside ...
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Determining if Linux partition is ext2 or ext3 without /etc/fstab info
How do I determine if a partition is ext2 or ext3 if I no longer have a copy of /etc/fstab ?
Here is what I get out of dumpe2fs. I suspect that there is some info here that is relevant. I am guessing ...
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Recover formatted ntfs files from ubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Free NTFS partition recovery
I had Windows XP running on my system and i installed Ubuntu which deleted all my drives and created a single drive in ext2 format. Now is there ...
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Trying to run QEMU with a file as hda
I'm trying to run QEMU and use a simple file on the host system as the guest's hard drive. Here's what I attempted so far:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/felix/vm/archlinux.img bs=1MB count=8192
8192+0 ...
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ext2 driver for OSX?
I need to read files off an ext2 formatted HD. Any suggestions?