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Hard drive size 'loss' using EXT3 Filesystem
We have an Ubuntu backup server with removeable hard drives in caddys.
They are standard IDE/PATA, it came to light that although the drives in the caddys are 160GB in size they where only ...
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How to extend a Linux ext3 partition?
I have the following partitions on my HDD:
I want to extend my Linux partition /dev/sda6 with the unallocated space of ~1GB above it.
But when I right click on this partition the option to ...
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How can I format an SD card with a more robust Linux-usable filesystem with a specific cluster size for better write performace?
Goal: microSD card formatted...
for best write performance
for use only with embedded Linux
for better reliability (random power failures may occur)
using an 64kB cluster size
I'm using an 8GB ...
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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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Fsck says read block too short
Yesterday I left my Ubuntu laptop alone for a bit, and the power cable got knocked out, so the computer got shut down. Upon starting it up, it insisted on running fsck, which failed, asking me to run ...
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How to convert ext3 partition to use encrypted file system without loosing data?
My embedded Linux device have 2 partitions:
small root partition containing OS.
big data partition which uses ext3
I want to encrypt the data partition by using encrypted file system.
I don't want ...
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How to see recent file changes on ext3 file system?
Looks like I don't understand the journaling facilities of ext3fs.
I use a Linux server system with a lot of other users having sudo rights. The problem is that often config files are getting changed ...
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Linux - how to format multiple file systems within one file?
I need to create a disk image with two empty file systems. I have created it using
dd if=/dev/zero of=./disk.img bs=1MiB count=1024
Next, I have created 2 primary partitions using fdisk disk.img; ...
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How can I mount ext3 with restricted permissions, like setting uid, gid and umask?
I want to mount an ext3 filesystem on a device with uid, gid, umask options set. When I use these options during mount, I get an error.
Below is the command I am using to mount:
mount -t ext3 -o ...
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Shrink EXT3 and Expand NTFS
I have a partition table that looks like this:
[root@tower ~]# fdisk /dev/sda
WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
switch off the mode (command 'c') and ...
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Read ext3 filesystem on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I want to read and copy an ext3 file system on mac os x snow leopard.
Search points to using macfuse (MacFUSE-2.0.3,2) with fuse ext2 (0.0.7)
Which seems to work, but copy stops with:
unexpected ...
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Calculate minimum ext3 partition size for certain amount of data
These following ext3 partitions contain identical data. As we can see, the larger the partition size, the more space is required for the same files:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available ...
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How to mount Ext3 drive in Cygwin?
I want to mount and fully operate an Ext3-formatted USB drive in Cygwin under Windows XP. How can I do this?
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Command: How to format Ext2/Ext3 with Cygwin? [closed]
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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Stuck choosing between ext4 and ext3 for the file system
I was in the process of installing Ubuntu 11.10, but got stuck choosing which file system to use.
ext3 and ext4; which is better for a personal desktop?
If ext4 is better, will it work well on my ...
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How can I mount a single RAID 1 disk/partition as ext3?
I need to copy data from a single HD, which used to be part of a Linux RAID 1. I've googled around, but can't find any clue how to mount partitions from this single HD.
Background: The HD comes from ...
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Is UDF an ok substitute for ext3?
I'm thinking of doing the UDF thing to share files between windows and linux.
Is UDF a viable option for /home
Is UDF a viable option for /
Can windows XP correctly read sparse files I created in ...
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ext2explore for windows doesn't read ext3/4 sparse files what does?
I have some sparse files that I want to read/copy to windows but I can't find a FS reader that works any suggestions?
EDIT: to clarify the sparse files are living on an ext3 partition it's this ...
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Performance of file operations on thousands of files on NTFS vs HFS, ext3, others
[Crossposted from my Ask HN post. Feel free to close it if the question's too broad for superuser.]
This is something I've been curious about for years, but I've never found any good discussions on ...
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Disk fragmentation on Linux
Do I have to de-fragment my ext3 and FAT32 filesystems on Linux? And if yes how?
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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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How to convert ext3 to NTFS in Windows XP？
One of my partitions is ext3,I can't even see it in Windows,I want to convert it to ntfs or fat32 so I can use it. How can I convert this partition from ext3 to ntfs in Windows XP without destroying ...
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Damaged NTFS Partition by GParted
Ive got a big big problem. Ive lost my 150Gb partition with family photos/videos and other valuable stuff. :(
I have external 320Gb HDD, with (it was) partitions: [ 30gb ext3 ubuntu bootable; 150Gb ...
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Disadvantages of having a virtual machine with a different file system than host
I have a server with VMware Server 2 configured to host several virtual machines. I chose XFS as the filesystem for this main server because of his great handling of large files.
But I want the ...
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Truecrypt + EXT2IFS/EXT2FSD Safe?
Is it safe to mount an EXT3 partition encrypted by Truecrypt in Windows using Truecrypt to decrypt it and then EXT2IFS or EXT2FSD to read/write to it?
I have not attempted it yet because I would ...
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Accessing a Linux ext3 partition from Windows 7 x64
I checked the couple other questions on this topic, but the solutions provided are not working in my setup.
EDIT
Just found out tonight the partition I thought was ext3 is actually ReiserFS
The ...
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How to view bad blocks on mounted ext3 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 badblock inode).
Now I'd like to get badblock ...
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Partition table is corrupt
I have a corrupt the partition table on the laptop that is running Ubunutu 10.4.
Before the partition table was corrupt I had the following partitions:
2 primary partitions:
1st - NTFS
2nd - Extended
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Data recover from a different hard disk format
I had an ext3 formatted disk with Debian.
I copied files to another Debian in another pc.
Then I installed Windows 7 on that disk, with a new ntfs format.
Later, I realized I didn't copied some files ...
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ext3: maximum recommended partition size / handling large partitions
I would like to do an encrypted install of Ubuntu on a 2 Terabyte drive (i.e., using LUKS/DMcrypt).
In order to not have to type in passwords too often, the partitioning scheme will be 50 GB for / and ...
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Files have disappeared on my ext3 external hard drive
Yesterday, my external hard drive was working fine. Now, only the boot partition is accessible whilst the main partition with all my files on it is coming up as a raw, empty drive.
I had taken it to ...
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Convert NTFS to EXT3?
I have 1TB external HDD, the file system is NTFS
and i need to convert it to Ext3.
My operating system is Ubuntu 10.10
is there anyway to do so without losing my data??
Thanks for your help
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How to corrupt a file system the most spectecular way ;-) [closed]
I want to cause damage to a file system and then try to restore it. I want to use a VM first and when I've learned a little try it on an old HDD. Any ways to damage a filesystem non physically is ...
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Questions about solid state drives?
How to tell if a hard drive is solid
state drive? For example:
For one laptop, its hard drive is 244GB Western Digital WDC
WD2500BEVS-08VAT2 (SATA)
For another, its hard drive is 98GB ...
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Which ext4 features are missing on an upgraded filesystem?
Which ext4 features will be missing on a filesystem upgraded from ext3 to ext4 using the instructions here?
The text explains:
There are additional ext4 features, such as flex_bg and > 16TB ...
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Ext3 partition doesn't mount on Snow Leopard using MacFUSE
I'm dual-booting OS X and Ubuntu on a Macbook 4,1. I'm trying to mount my Linux partition in OS X. I installed MacFUSE 2.0.3,2 and fuse-ext2-0.0.7 on Snow Leopard 10.6.5. I created the directory ...
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Upgrade root (also boot) filesystem from ext3 to ext4 on Debian
After upgrading a Debian system from 5.0 to 6.0 (Lenny to Sqeeze), how do I go about upgrading the root filesystem (which in this case is also boot) from ext3 to ext4?
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About file size and disk usage in ext3
I have several copies of a file. The files take 2390170KiB each, according to ls -lk and du --apparent-size -k.
The problem is that du -k reports different sizes for each copy: 2389824, 2392512, ...
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Perform bad blocks scan on root partition in Linux
My root partition is formatted as ext3 and I would like to perform a bad blocks scan on it. Normally e2fsck -c -c does this, but you can not run it on a mounted partition. I know it is possible to ...
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linux df and OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device
I've got a weird inconsistency (although I'm probably just missing something quite basic).
While running some script that generates small files on my I disk, I constantly get this error:
OSError: ...
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External USB harddrive going unresponsive after a few hours of use
I mount my Seagate FreeAgent Pro external harddrive to my Fedora box via USB. I use it as storage for my backups. Recently, it's been giving me some problems. I attempted to contact Seagate and they ...
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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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Why does “ls -a” hide some existing directory from the root user?
Today I found something really interesting (at least to me) on one of our test servers:
I can change into an existing directory from my actual working directory using a relative path, but that very ...
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Should external drives be converted to ext3?
I switched over from Windows to Linux. I have an external drive that has basically just media files on it. Are there any advantages to converting this to ext3, or should I just leave it as ntfs3?
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Is there any tool to read ext3 partition directly in XP [closed]
Possible Duplicates:
linux to windows migration tips and tools
Mount ext3fs in Windows
I am using WinXP and I have a partition in ext3 format.
How can I read the content in this partition ...
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What partition type is faster for virtualization?
I am running Ubuntu and installed a virtualized Windows XP using Oracle's VirtualBox. I have a good 64GB partition to store the VirtualBox's .vdi hard disk image files. But I would like to know what ...
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Determine which sectors of a hard disk a given file occupies?
Is there a way I can see which sectors of the hard disk a given file occupies?
The filesystem is ext3 or ext4 on Linux.
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Debian: Unable to mount a second drive as a subdirectory inside of another partition
I have the following /etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> ...
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Read raw HD partition in Linux at a particular offset
I'm trying to recover some files deleted from a Linux ext3 partition. I've grepped the raw partition device (/dev/sda1) using grep -b and it gave me an offset. What's the easiest way for me to read a ...
