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ext4 is full but checked OK with fsck and badsector and shows plenty of free space

I need your opinion on this, any idea welcomed: I have a PC with separated / and /home FSs. The root fs has ext4 on sda5, Ubuntu is Precise Pangolin LTS 3.2.0-40-generic-pae. I had a package update ...
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Is it possible to unmount the /home partition?

I want to recover some files in my home directory using extundelete http://sourceforge.net/projects/extundelete/ This tool needs to unmount the device before start to work, but I cannot umount ...
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How could I mount an ext4 partition and have write permission?

I've set the /etc/fstab file so that I can mount an ext4 partition on startup and I did it with the following options : rw, auto, nouser, exec, sync. The problem is that I can't create or delete any ...
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Mounting NFS issues - LVM - ext4

I set my ubuntu desktop up with LVM2. I don't know if that is contributing to the issue or whether I have forgotten something. When I try to mount the external filesystem with this command: sudo ...
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How to mount root.disk from WUBI when booted from dual boot install of Ubuntu?

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTFS. On the same disk, I have another Win7. On the NTFS Win7, I have buntu 11.04 running on a ext4 partition that was installed with Wubi. I'd like to be able to access my ...
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Difficulty mounting Ubuntu 12.10 (64-bit) on new HDD

To the gentle membership of the Ubuntu Linux Forum: After my laptop passed away a few weeks ago, I made up my mind to build n open source system. So I put together a computer for this purpose. I have ...
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High CPU load for 1:30 minutes when mounting ext4-raid partition

--> The problem solved itself <-- Sometime between November 2012 and January 2013 one of the Ubuntu updates made the time the mount command takes to complete go down to ~1 second again: time ...
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Mounting ddrescue image after recovery (in over my head)

I'm having problems mounting the recovery image. I've tried to mount the image multiple ways. quark@DS9 ~ $ sudo mount -t ext4 /media/jump1/1recover/sdb1.img /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, ...
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How to mount ext4 partition?

How do I mount an ext4 partition as my user account so I wouldn't require root access to r/w on it? I used -o uid=flint,gid=flint on the mount command but I keep getting mount: wrong fs type, bad ...
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How to set permissions so that I can read and write to another partition?

I m using Ubuntu 12.04 and i have to partitions part1 and part2, both are ext4. I want to transfer media files to and from them freely through programs.
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bind (hardlink) one directory to many places

I need to "bind" one directory to many chrooted places. I know that I can do "mount -o bind", but this requires special processing on startup each time (run the mount). Is there a way to do it on ...
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How do I mount a Truecrypt volume with special options?

I would like to mount an ext4 truecrypt drive with --fs-options but it doesn't work. Also I created a FAT partition and the following command is working. What is the alternative command if my ...
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Ext4 volume as File on NTFS volume

I was running out of space on my ext3 root volume , so I created a Ext4 Volume as a file and saved it on a NTFS partition. Then made this ext4 vol as a permanent mount. Purpose was to have all the ...
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What are these files like Zone.Identifier:$DATA and how to prevent them?

I have an ext4 drive which is available to my windows XP VirtualBox as a shared folder. When working with files across ubuntu and windows I sometimes see these autogenerated files with ...
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What is the default behaviour of atime?

I have an Ubuntu 11.04 installation. The /home directory is on a partition which uses the ext4 filesystem. I haven't changed the default configuration so the filesystem is mounted at boot time with ...
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view LVM paritions in windows 7

im trying to browse in windows an old harddisk that i got, but its a LVM patition. How can I see a partition that is ext3/4 or part of LVM partition in windows? Anyone can recommend on a tool?
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Cannot mount disk at all. Detailed explanation, Need help

I can no longer mount an extra internal hard drive on my Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit system. I could up until a few days ago. I think this has something to do with the problem ---- I had added a line at the ...
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How much space do I need to create a backup with fsdisk

I get this error when mounting a drive [ 4337.380506] EXT4-fs (sda): bad geometry: block count 156282966 exceeds size of device (156282701 blocks) So if I try to fix it with sfdisk do I need space ...