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Misused mke2fs and cannot boot into system

I installed Ubuntu with WUBI in Windows 7 64bit, and I had installed Mandriva 2011 with a disk. I tried to learn Linux with Ubuntu and misused mke2fs; after I reboot my computer, Windows 7 and Ubuntu ...
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File recovery after reformattig ext3/4 partition — extract old journal/superblock?

I seem to have reformatted my /home partition (previously ext4) as ext3 during an Ubuntu installation. It took me a couple of mounts to figure that out. Which, of course, is a bad thing. I've tried ...
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Can you apply noatime on Ext3 partitions at realtime?

an application accesses a disk directory containing about 3 million files (including directories). I would like to apply the noatime option for that filesystem and I would like to know whether I can ...
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An error occurred while mounting ext3

I was trying to install Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition. When I reboot computer I am getting this message "An error occurred while mounting ext3". $ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 ...
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Can't access my partitions

I have asked this question some time before as well - but here is the main problem out: MBR was defect, I used Boot-Repair that I could access my Win-xp partition With windows ext3 readers I can't ...
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I made a mistake by making NTFS partition as /home, how to resolve it?

I was following the instruction of Move home folder to second drive and following http://askubuntu.com/a/50539/57941 instruction, I made an NTFS partition as my /home directory. But now I want to ...
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Why are my lvm snapshots full of ext3 errors and why can't udev remove them?

I'm running a backup script that every hour makes snapshots of my partitions and then rsyncs those snapshots over to an external drive. I've noticed two things about this: Every time I make a ...