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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):
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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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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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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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How to properly clone /dev/sda on /dev/sdb
I have two hard disks with the same sizes - represented as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I am trying to copy /dev/sda on /dev/sdb. /dev/sda has one ext3 partition. /dev/sda and /dev/sdb have the same ...
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Using dd command fails after the first mount
I am using dd command to copy disk drive /dev/sda on /dev/sdb. What I do is the following: I run
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
then mount /dev/sdb1 (note that /dev/sdb1 is not mounted on boot) to make ...
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can't delete bugged file on ext3
I have a file called "Last Tabs" on my ext3 filesystem that I can't delete (created by chromium). It appears to be bugged. If I use ls -l I get
ls: cannot access Last Tabs: No such file or directory
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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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Why is there a lot of CPU usage on mostly IO operation?
I have a process writing binary files into ext3 filesystem.
I would assume that this should be a pretty easy process on CPU, but I see 45% system CPU utilization. It's a 40-cores 80-threads server, ...
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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.
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