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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ubuntu Wubi "drive" failure; mount drive in XP?
I installed the Wubi distribution of Ubuntu on a separate partition (which is silly, since why do I care if Windows can still manage the partition?) a few months back; it was pretty awesome, until ...
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How can I best prepare a 3 drive Windows system for Linux?
I'm planning to migrate a Windows system with 3 NTFS drives to Ubuntu Studio. The primary 80G drive will be primary and ext3, and I have 2 large NTFS drives with media and backups.
Is there anything ...
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