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What are benefits of upgrading filesystem from ext2?
I have ext2 filesystem installed on my work machine. I talk with my friend who knows linux a lot better and he said its very old and its very weird that I use so old filesystem.
I'm now trying to get ...
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What is the difference between ext3 & ext4 from a generic user's prespective
What are the very big differences between ext3 and ext4 from a generic user's perspective? I heard, sticking with ext3 is wiser. Is it true?
EDIT: One thing I want to note that, I am a dual user ...
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Why can't Ubuntu see any free space?
I've got an external terabyte drive to store my scrap (actually I mean a partition on it, I've got some other partitions there). The FS used is ext3. Even after I delete some files there (so there are ...
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How do I convert a FAT32 to ext3 (keeping the data on it)
Is there a way to convert a FAT partition to ext3 (or other ext..) while keeping the data on it? I don't have access to a external USB hard disk to temporarily store the data, so I'd like to just ...
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How to find reasons for journal recovery
Recently, when I've been starting my computer I'm informed that it is recovering the journal for one of my ext3 partitions.
One might expect this behaviour if the computer shutdown improperly, but, ...
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ext[34] `commit` option and filesystem integrity
I'm running a fairly fresh and vanilla 10.10 install, built from scratch about a month ago on an Acer Aspire 5742 laptop. I use openbox as my window manager and run neither the KDE nor Gnome desktop ...
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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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Drive says it's full when it is not [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why can't Ubuntu see any free space?
I have a hard drive that should have close to 40GB free. However, when I just restarted the computer, Ubuntu popped up with the ...
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Shred alternatives EXT3?
Given the fact shred will not be effective on ext3, I wonder what are the available alternatives right now.
$ man shred
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CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that
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How to make ext3 converted to ext4 support e4defrag?
I have two ext3 filesystems that are very old and have been 99% full for a long time, leading to fragmentation. Also, they've been used for running VMs with dynamic disk images and other ...
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Is it possible to install Ubuntu 10.04 on ext3 instead of ext4?
Is it possible to install Ubuntu 10.04 on ext3 instead of ext4?
This is because I want to use my backup program "Acronis" to save an image of the whole partition.
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JFS vs. EXT4 vs. EXT3 [duplicate]
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What is the best way to partition, and what is the best file-system for a new Hard Disk?
I've got a 2TB external HD on which I save valuable data. so far I'm using NTFS ...
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If I change my home from ext3 to ext4 when installing will my data be lost?
If I change my home from ext3 to ext4 when installing will my data be lost?
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Installing ubuntu 12.04 LTS alongwith windows xp in two different HDDs
I have two HDDs.
First HDD has four partitions with Windows XP in the first partition
Second has two partitions and 15GB unallocated space.
I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in the second HDD ...
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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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Why does it appear that my Linux file system is more fragile than my Windows file system?
I've got my laptop in dual booting, and whenever I boot into Linux (Ubuntu or Linux Mint), there's a decent chance that it will run the file system check (more than the default once every 30 times), ...
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Does ubuntu one synchronize extended file attributes?
Ext3 and 4 filesystems, if mounted with that option, support extended file attributes with which you can add metadata to your files: author, ACLs, and actually whatever you want. Does Ubuntu One ...
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In simple terms, how do ext4 journaling file systems work?
How does a journaling file system work and why does it not fragment, like ntfs? Why hasn't Windows switched over to a journaling file system? Co.uld someone please explain this to me? Thanks.
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Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive 1TB Cloud Edition failed, data recovery?
I have a Iomega Home Media Network Drive Cloud Edition 1TB that started clicking and then displayed a failure LED code Power LED and Red LED. I removed the SATA drive and inserted in a 'All in 1 HDD ...
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The partition table is corrupt
I have a corrupt the partition table on the laptop that is running Ubuntu 10.4.
Before the partition table was corrupt I had the following partitions: 2 primary partitions: 1st - NTFS 2nd - Extended ...
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Boot time is more than one minute with ext3 FS recovery everytime
It takes more than a minute for Ubuntu to boot up on my new laptop. I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 installed using Wubi.
From dmesg, I see the following:
[ 2.934384] EXT3-fs (loop0): recovery ...
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Recovery from hell - undeleting partition overwritten by Xubuntu 12.10 installer?
This is turning into a nightmare - following my initial recovery of my two partitions, I went to install Xubuntu 12.10 (again). At this time I had two partitions - one of ~39 GB had Zorin OS 6 ...
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What partition to use to keep data files in Ubuntu?
I have been using Ubuntu for a few years and usually my partition set up was the following:
Ext3 or Ext4 partition for the system itself (20 GB);
A 10 GB swap partition;
a big FAT32 partition to ...
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Is ext4 stable on 11.10?
I have seen that Ubuntu 11.10 is offering Ext4 as default file system. As I have googled some time on ext4 and found that ext3 is quite stable that ext4 as it still has some bugs.
Even the Ubuntu ...
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Convert a pen USB to External Hard disk
My sat decoder need to have an external HDD to record videos... If I use my 8GB as pen, it doesn't recognize it! How can I convert to it, to let the decoder work?
It has to be partitioned as ext3.
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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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System frozen each time I try to encrypt usb drive with ext3 [closed]
My Mint Linux 13 (Maya) which is basically Ubuntu 12.04, keeps screen frozen each time I try to format & encrypt my external USB hard drive with Ext3. This will happen not right away but after few ...
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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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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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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 ...
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What are the benefits (or drawbacks) in creating file-system directly on hard drive rather than on a partition? [closed]
For an example, what are the advantages (or optionally disadvantages) of creating a Linux file-system (ext3 or ext4) directly on hard drive (i.e mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb) rather than making it on a ...
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How to mount Ubuntu partitions in windows 7 64 bit [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to read ext4 and btrfs partitions in Windows?
hi there well i just wanted to know how i can copy or add somethings in my Ubuntu partition in windows 7 64 bit. I ...
