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ext3, or third extended filesystem, is a journaled file system that is commonly used by the Linux kernel. It is the default file system for many popular Linux distributions.

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Mount ext3 filesystem in Cygwin

I've succesfully partitioned and created an ext3 file system on my SD Card using Cygwin. Now I need to mount that partition in Cygwin to add some files to it. Is this somehow possible with Cygwin, or ...
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Why do disk errors appear in dmesg output even though fsck has not been run?

I have an 8TiB disk attached via UBS3 and formatted into 3 EXT3 partitions which I use as a backup drive (it's plugged into a SATA cradle). The disk has been attached and mounted for several days ...
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Unable to mount a USB disk on Raspberry Pi 4

I'm trying to mount a USB disk on a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu 19.10 (arm64 kernel 5.3.0-1007-raspi2) and I'm getting the following errors (it seems to switch between the two): tom@cl0:/tmp$ sudo ...
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Is it required to manually run e2fsck at regular intervals?

Is it required to manually run the e2fsck (used to check a Linux ext2/ext3/ext4 file system) at regular intervals, an if so, how often should I run it? Or can I rely on a present S.M.A.R.T. (Self-...
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I have 30 hard drives of which 12 are Linux. How do I give them drive letters? I also have about 3 usb that need drive letters as well

I used to have 2 main workstations. Windows and Linux - Ubuntu for the Linux. Between the two of them, I had more than 30 hard drives in 2 NAS boxes operating on a JBOD basis and each workstation ...
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Accessing a LUKS encrypted ext4 HDD from Windows 10

I have a LUKS encrypted external hard-drive with ext4 filesystem and I recently started using Windows 10 as my main OS. I tried to gain access to this external HDD from Win10 via various applications (...
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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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Why do directory trees use less space on ext4 filesystem than ext3?

I got a new external disk to replace an older one that has shown signs of trouble. I used rsync to copy the contents of the old disk to the new one. To check if the copying had worked properly, I've ...
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Resize Partition and Filesystem Within Disk Image

I have a RAW disk image which has two partitions, with an ext2 and ext3 filesystem respectively. I want to add a gigabyte to the size of the latter partition, and resize its filesystem. How can I do ...
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Do ext3/4 file systems accumulate errors naturally (as reported by fsck)?

I run a number of CentOS 6 64bit servers with ext3/ext4 file systems. As far as I can tell, none of them have been shutdown improperly, but all of them have accumulated some file system errors that ...
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Recover/undelete files from a mounted partition (ext3)

I accidentally deleted an important file from a Linux system that I'd really want to recover. The main problem is that machine is a critical system that cannot be shut down nor can the relevant ...
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Data copied from NTFS drive to ext3 drive disappears upon reboot in Windows 7

I am trying to copy 500+ GB's of data from an NTFS formatted HDD to a ext3 formatted one. I am doing so from within Windows 7 Pro 64. At first I was using Ext2 Volume Manager to mount the ext3 drive. ...
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Does ext3 filesystem allow to extend partition when mounted?

I read that ext3 filesystem can be extended "online". Does ext3 allow to extend a mounted partition? I found this strange question on a test.
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Can ext2fsd be used to turn a volume as NTFS?

I have a ext4 formatted hard drive. Could I plug it into my Windows system using ext2fsd, and turn it into NTFS using the following steps? Plug ext4 formatted drive into Windows using ext2fsd. ...
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Mounting a Partitioned Image

I'm having a bit of difficulty mounting some .img files that I myself didn't create (I've been able to mount ones I've created just fine). This is what parted shows me for one particular file: (...
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Determining HDD file format?

I took the working IDE system drive out of an old Mac G3 system and I'd like to read its files on a Windows 10 OS. I have the Ext2Fsd driver and volume manager installed on my Windows system, which I'...
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How to properly clone /dev/sda on /dev/sdb

I have two hard disks with the same sizes - represented as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I am trying to copy /dev/sda on /dev/sdb. /dev/sda has one ext3 partition. /dev/sda and /dev/sdb have the same ...
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Using dd command fails after the first mount

I am using dd command to copy disk drive /dev/sda on /dev/sdb. What I do is the following: I run dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb then mount /dev/sdb1 (note that /dev/sdb1 is not mounted on boot) to make ...
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can't delete bugged file on ext3

I have a file called "Last Tabs" on my ext3 filesystem that I can't delete (created by chromium). It appears to be bugged. If I use ls -l I get ls: cannot access Last Tabs: No such file or directory ...
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External HDD appears to be mounted rw, but switches to ro

When I first mount my external HDD, it claims to be mounted rw: # mkdir /media/external-hdd # mount /dev/sdb1 /media/external-hdd # mount | grep sdb1 /dev/sdb1 on /media/external-hdd type ext3 (rw,...
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How many actual files were you able to store in a CentOS folder? [closed]

I found many questions about the total files limitations of the CentOS file-system, but I was curios in actual real-world situation, how many files people were able to store in one single CentOS ...
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Why is there a lot of CPU usage on mostly IO operation?

I have a process writing binary files into ext3 filesystem. I would assume that this should be a pretty easy process on CPU, but I see 45% system CPU utilization. It's a 40-cores 80-threads server, ...
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Best way to access ext partion in windows?

What is the most stable and easiest way to get readable access of linux partitions in windows? All software and drivers I´ve found seem to have been dead/inactive for at least 4 years. Native ...
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After deleting lots of large files, free space increases with a large delay

Yesterday, I have deleted 71 GB of files on my home/media server. Free space before: 117 GB Free space after: 126 GB So, instead of having 71 GB of additional free space, I only had 9 GB. I have ...
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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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ext3 vs ext4 bonnie++ rand/seq create speed

I am testing the difference between ext3 and ext4 for our application. When I run both filesystems through a bonnie++ test, the results for file creation on ext4 aren't very good. While ext3 can ...
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Network Error : Windows Cannot access on Ext2Fsd ext3 drive

Unable to execute exe files from ext3 drive form Windows7 64 bit giving error :Network Error : Windows Cannot access Error code :0x800704b3 PS: Creating editing copying everything else works ...
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Does shrinking a partition to its minimum size then expanding it increase performance?

As a VPS administrator, I've shrunken and cloned partitions (or disk images) to perform backups. The shrinking of the partition adds a few extra minutes of downtime, but reduces the amount of total ...
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Cannot format local loopback filesystem

I'm trying to make a 40GB ext3 local loopback file system. This loopback filesystem is stored on my NAS which is mounted on a Ubuntu Precise 12.04 x64 machine using NFS. The machine has both read and ...
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Why my external drive turned in read only mode?

I have this HDD (quite new, 4 months old) which I formatted to ext3 (my router supports ext3, not ext4) and I started copying all my data from an older drive on it (1TB data). After a bit (a lot of ...
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Moving 2TB (10 mil files + dirs), what's my bottleneck?

Background I ran out of space on /home/data and need to transfer /home/data/repo to /home/data2. /home/data/repo contains 1M dirs, each of which contain 11 dirs and 10 files. It totals 2TB. /home/...
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Linux: Should off-site backups be stored in ext3 or ext4?

We have been using ext3 for Linux server off-site backups. With everything else on CentOS 6 being ext4, I'm wondering if it would be a better idea to also have the off-site backups in ext4 too? The ...
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How to format a disk in ext3 file system with a Block size greater than 4096

I want to format a disk in ext3 file system with the block size as 4096. Is there any possibility to do so? What if we do not write Inode Bitmap while formatting?
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I have an ext3 iso disk image. Can I use it and write it to a ext4 partition?

Is it possible to do so ? I am migrating to EXT4 because of the SSD drive that has TRIM funtion. I have to have ext4 partion.
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Changing max inode count number in ext3 filesystem in Cent OS

Assuming that I use ext3 filesystem in Cent OS: Can I increase the number of Free Inodes in the filesystem? If Yes how? When I run tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 it got these inodes statistics: Filesystem ...
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Is a disk defragmentation needed in this case?

I'm running Debian 6.0.5 (squeeze) with ext3 as the filesystem. I'v read that ext3 does not require defrag, but I was recently trying out some torrent clients and they all came with the allocate disk ...
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VirtualBox - Disparity between host system hard drive and VDI

I was working on a VirtualBox (4.2.4) VM (Debian Linux 64 bit, using ext3 filesystem, host drive is NTFS) and had a BSOD on the host system while the guest was operating normally. I had changed a ...
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restore dd image to another usb stick failed

I'm trying to create a dd image which contains two partition. The first is a ext3,(19MB) the 2nd is fat32.(16MB) I use one 512M usb stick to create image. And use dd if=/dev/sdc of=image.dd bs=1M ...
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formatting ext3 to fat32/ntfs on windows 7

In a failed attempt to install Linux Mint on an external hard drive, I damaged the disk. Now, it does not show up in the 'My Computer' folder or in Disk Management. I speculate it might have to do ...
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Which file system is the fastest? [closed]

I'm looking to format my hard drive. I've heard about a file system called "ext3", it's supposedly a linux partition and I think is a lot faster than NTFS. But my question, is, is there anything ...
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Lost files on ext3 external drive

I have a 500Gb portable HDD that I formatted with ext3 to use with an NAS. Yesterday I was reorganizing the thing and dragged a folder with all my old photos, a few videos, old documents, etc. to a ...
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find amin to retrieve executed php files by apache

So I have a massive legacy app that consists of half a million php files. For a single request, I would like to know which php files are used by apache to respond. I can look at the apache logs, they ...
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Unable to mount 2nd 500 Gb USB hard drive

I have two Seagate 500 GB USB hard drives. I installed Debian 2.6.32-5-686 on one of them, and used dd to create a clone of the bootable drive. I have verified that I can boot and run from either ...
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file-name encoding problems

I googled over this topic but couldn't find what I was looking for... the following "happend" to me: I had my files stored on a NTFS-USB Harddisk, because of space problems I moved them to an ext3 ...
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Reverse lookup of inode/file from offset in raw device on linux and ext3/4?

In linux, given an offset into a raw disk device, is it possible to map back to an partition + inode? For example, suppose I know that string "xyz" is contained at byte offset 1000000 on /dev/sda: (e....
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How to mount Ext3 on Windows Vista

I had a Ubuntu12 on my PC but due to performance issue I turned back to Windows Vista ; Unfortunately I found that my other volume of 70Gb is not mounted because it's a Ext3 type and of course windows ...
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NAS Drive Not Correctly Reporting Files, Directories from a DOS/Command prompt in WIN7

I have an NAS drive on my network, and it works just fine. I can access every file on it with WIN7. However, when I go to a command prompt and perform a directory command, the command reports 0 ...
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change owner/uid of mount point upon mount

The scenario is like this. Bob has a computer. It crashed. Now he only has the hdd. The hdd is in ext3 format. He go to his office and told the sys admin John to mount this hdd and put the mount point ...
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Resize underlying partitions in mdadm RAID1

I have a home built NAS, and I need to slightly reconfigure some of my drive usage. I have an mdadm RAID1 composed of two 3TB drives. Each drive has one ext3 partition that uses the entire drive. ...
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Share nvraid ext3 raid 0 disk across network from Windows Vista

I have a dual boot setup between windows vista 64-bit and ubuntu (11 or 12--latest as of a month ago or so, I think). Ubuntu is installed on an nforce4 nvraid raid 0 disk. Windows is installed on a ...
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