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 can I mount a single RAID 1 disk/partition as ext3?
I need to copy data from a single HD, which used to be part of a Linux RAID 1. I've googled around, but can't find any clue how to mount partitions from this single HD.
Background: The HD comes from ...
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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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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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How to mount an encrypted ext3 filesystem under OS X?
I know how to mount an ext3 filesystem in OS X with MacFUSE and fuse-ext2. But how can I mount an encrypted ext3 volume?
I have Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" running.
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Moving 2TB (10 mil files + dirs), what's my bottleneck?
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I ran out of space on /home/data and need to transfer /home/data/repo to /home/data2.
/home/data/repo contains 1M dirs, each of which contain 11 dirs and 10 files. It totals 2TB.
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Reverse lookup of inode/file from offset in raw device on linux and ext3/4?
In linux, given an offset into a raw disk device, is it possible to map back to an partition + inode?
For example, suppose I know that string "xyz" is contained at byte offset 1000000 on /dev/sda:
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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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Stuck choosing between ext4 and ext3 for the file system
I was in the process of installing Ubuntu 11.10, but got stuck choosing which file system to use.
ext3 and ext4; which is better for a personal desktop?
If ext4 is better, will it work well on my ...
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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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How to read external USB hard drive formatted ext3 from Windows 7?
I had to format a USB hard drive to ext3 to use it with a Linksys nas box. Now I can't read the hd when I unplug it from the nas and plug it directly into my Windows 7 computer. (The computer ...
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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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Mount ext3 filesystem in Cygwin
I've succesfully partitioned and created an ext3 file system on my SD Card using Cygwin.
Now I need to mount that partition in Cygwin to add some files to it.
Is this somehow possible with Cygwin, or ...
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View bad blocks on mounted ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
I've ran fsck -c on the (unmounted) partition in question a while ago. The process was unattended and results were not stored anywhere (except the bad block inode).
Now I'd like to get bad block ...
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Damaged NTFS Partition by GParted
I've lost my 150 GB partition with family photos/videos and other valuable files.
I have an external 320 GB HDD, with (it was) partitions: [30 GB ext3 ubuntu bootable; 150 GB NTFS with family data (...
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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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