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Tagged with ext3 filesystems
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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.
Peter
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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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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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