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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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 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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External HDD appears to be mounted rw, but switches to ro
When I first mount my external HDD, it claims to be mounted rw:
# mkdir /media/external-hdd
# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/external-hdd
# mount | grep sdb1
/dev/sdb1 on /media/external-hdd type ext3 (rw,...
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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.
Native ...
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After deleting lots of large files, free space increases with a large delay
Yesterday, I have deleted 71 GB of files on my home/media server.
Free space before: 117 GB
Free space after: 126 GB
So, instead of having 71 GB of additional free space, I only had 9 GB. I have ...
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Accesing EXT3 partition form WIN XP
I have WIN XP partition on my PC. It is used from time to time, but I need access to one particular EXT3 formatted Linux filesystem in read/write mode.
Sourceforge offers Ext2Fsd. Nice, but it works ...
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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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Network Error : Windows Cannot access on Ext2Fsd ext3 drive
Unable to execute exe files from ext3 drive form Windows7 64 bit
giving error :Network Error : Windows Cannot access
Error code :0x800704b3
PS: Creating editing copying everything else works ...
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Does shrinking a partition to its minimum size then expanding it increase performance?
As a VPS administrator, I've shrunken and cloned partitions (or disk images) to perform backups. The shrinking of the partition adds a few extra minutes of downtime, but reduces the amount of total ...
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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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Why my external drive turned in read only mode?
I have this HDD (quite new, 4 months old) which I formatted to ext3 (my router supports ext3, not ext4) and I started copying all my data from an older drive on it (1TB data).
After a bit (a lot of ...
