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Best flash filesystem for backup /home in linux
I'm searching for a good solution to backup /home of my Debian linux system to a USB memory stick of size 128 GB. The directory /home weights about 65 GB and is formatted as ext4. Naturally, with the ...
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Ext4 superblock overwritten
System:
Embedded board with Atmel SAM9x25
Debian Wheezy Kernel 3.11.6
32GB Samsung SDHC card with ext4 root- partition (journal activated)
After system running two weeks or so superblock from ...
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Ext4 USB stick gets corrupted again and again
I installed Debian Wheezy (No GUI/Desktop) on a 4GB USB stick (because the harddrive of the machine was defective, currently the slot is empty), but shortly after, I got an “Input/Output error” when ...
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Creating ext4 partition from console
I have a volume /dev/sda1 (1.2 TB) containing an NTFS partition using 0.6 TB space.
I want to make an ext4 partition in the remaining 0.6 TB space.
I have not tried anything yet because I don't want ...
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mkfs.ext4 errors
I've just installed Kali Linux and am working with an img file I created from dd (/dev/zero). When I go to do mkfs.ext4 on it, I get
mkfs.ext4: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition ...
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