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A ext-format usb 3.0 is unmounted from ubuntu guest of virtual box on windows 8 host when I either connect or disconnect another usb device
A ext-format usb 3.0 hard disk is unmounted from ubuntu guest machine of virtual box on windows 8 host when I either connect or disconnect another usb device on the windows 8 host.
a ubuntu guest - ...
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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:
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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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Can't Read/Write the Hard disk used in NAS
I've lately purchased a Synology DS212j and I intended to use my two 3.5" HDs into it. One of them was in used as an external HD. Thus when I install these two unit in NAS, it asked me to formatted in ...
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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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Recovering Ext3 Partition After Failed Move
I had an 1.5TB exteral disk, with an 983.83 GB ext3 partition on it, where the partition was positioned such that there were approximately 400 GB free space before the ext3 partition.
I then used ...
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Dealing with different usernames when mounting removable media in Linux
I have a laptop in which my username is, say, "foo". I have an external drive, formatted with Ext4, for which all files are owned by "foo" (at a filesystem level). Now, I have a desktop in which my ...
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How to copy the files from my Linux-formatted external drive to Windows?
My Linux machine crashed, but all the files are backed up on a USB-based external drive. Problem is, it's an ext2 file system, so my other machine, which is a Windows XP machine, cannot read it (it ...
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Lost file mode information on ext3 directory hierarchy
An entire directory hierarchy of mine lost its file mode info. E.g.,
ed@bob:~/dev$ ls -l nir.git/
ls: cannot access nir.git/test: Permission denied
ls: cannot access nir.git/log: Permission denied
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accidental fsck on mounted
I accidently run "fsck" on a mounted partition which was my only parttion. Now I can't boot. It was Fedora 13, filesystem should be ext3.
I have booted from usb with ubuntu 11.10.I found that ...
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Is it possible to reformat an NTFS drive as Ext3 while keeping the data intact?
I have a 2 TB drive with about 900 GB of data on it. I'd like to convert it to ext3. I understand that there is no way to actually do it. So I'd like to try the following:
Shrink the 2TB ...
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Adding Space to RAID5 using mdadm, lvm and ext3
I have seen a few descriptions about using mdadm with lvm to create an easily expandable raid, such as this question, but I still think I'm missing something. Say that I create the raid using mdadm ...
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Is there a way for cygwin to access a Linux (ext3) partition?
I'd like to be able to access a Linux partition through cygwin on Windows. My purpose is to backup data from a Linux server to my home computer running Windows 7. Right now it mostly works, except ...
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How can I recover files from an hd I accidentally converted from NTFS to EXT3
I accidentally converted my 1TB external drive from NTFS to EXT3. I have a ton of data on the drive and I believe the data should still be there. Is there any way to either convert it back to NTFS ...
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fat and ext partitions on same drive, readable by Windows
I have a flash drive with a Debian installation on it, with lots of partitions (however many it makes if you choose all separate during installation). Anyways, what I want to do is create a FAT ...
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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 losing 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 an encrypted file system. I don't ...
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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:
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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? [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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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?
