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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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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