Questions tagged [ext3]
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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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 lost+...
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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 partition ...
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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 „resize/...
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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 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 uid=...
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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?
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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
I've lost my 150 GB partition with family photos/videos and other valuable files.
I have an external 320 GB HDD, with (it was) partitions: [30 GB ext3 ubuntu bootable; 150 GB NTFS with family data (...
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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 ReiserFS 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 ext3 ...
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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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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? [duplicate]
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
Alaa Alomari
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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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