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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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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NAS Drive Not Correctly Reporting Files, Directories from a DOS/Command prompt in WIN7
I have an NAS drive on my network, and it works just fine. I can access every file on it with WIN7.
However, when I go to a command prompt and perform a directory command, the command reports 0 ...
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change owner/uid of mount point upon mount
The scenario is like this. Bob has a computer. It crashed. Now he only has the hdd. The hdd is in ext3 format. He go to his office and told the sys admin John to mount this hdd and put the mount point ...
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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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Share nvraid ext3 raid 0 disk across network from Windows Vista
I have a dual boot setup between windows vista 64-bit and ubuntu (11 or 12--latest as of a month ago or so, I think). Ubuntu is installed on an nforce4 nvraid raid 0 disk. Windows is installed on a ...
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Recovering Ext3 Partition After Failed Move
I had an 1.5TB exteral disk, with an 983.83 GB ext3 partition on it, where the partition was positioned such that there were approximately 400 GB free space before the ext3 partition.
I then used ...
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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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accidental fsck on mounted
I accidently run "fsck" on a mounted partition which was my only parttion. Now I can't boot. It was Fedora 13, filesystem should be ext3.
I have booted from usb with ubuntu 11.10.I found that lost+...
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Is it possible to reformat an NTFS drive as Ext3 while keeping the data intact?
I have a 2 TB drive with about 900 GB of data on it. I'd like to convert it to ext3. I understand that there is no way to actually do it. So I'd like to try the following:
Shrink the 2TB partition ...
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Adding Space to RAID5 using mdadm, lvm and ext3
I have seen a few descriptions about using mdadm with lvm to create an easily expandable raid, such as this question, but I still think I'm missing something. Say that I create the raid using mdadm ...
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Is there a way for cygwin to access a Linux (ext3) partition?
I'd like to be able to access a Linux partition through cygwin on Windows. My purpose is to backup data from a Linux server to my home computer running Windows 7. Right now it mostly works, except ...
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How can I recover files from an hd I accidentally converted from NTFS to EXT3
I accidentally converted my 1TB external drive from NTFS to EXT3. I have a ton of data on the drive and I believe the data should still be there. Is there any way to either convert it back to NTFS ...
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fat and ext partitions on same drive, readable by Windows
I have a flash drive with a Debian installation on it, with lots of partitions (however many it makes if you choose all separate during installation). Anyways, what I want to do is create a FAT ...
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