Questions tagged [ext2]
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How do I mount ext2 or ext3 filesystems on OSX?
I would like to mount an ext2/3 filesystem on a mac running 10.5.
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kbyrd
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Where is my space on /var being used?
I'm a novice linux admin and now responsible for the OS of a 3 node Tomcat cluster.
(Tomcat is handled by the DEVs luckily.)
I got alarmed by our monitoring solution that /var on server01 has only 172MB left of free space.
Most likely because…
Yaaarrg
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Optimizing ext2 filesystem for use on LVM + RAID device? Stride, stripe-width, LVM IO size considerations
I'm building a new database server and am trying to make sure I have the setup as correct as possible. The database storage is 22x 15.7k RPM Western Digital SAS drives in RAID10, in an external SAS enclosure with two RAID controllers. Initially, I…
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Kendall
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How can I modify the wtime of ext filesystem
How can I modify the superblock of an ext filesystem so that I can set the field wtime (Last write time)?
I've tried with debugfs:
debugfs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
debugfs: open /dev/sdd2 -w
debugfs: ssv wtime "@0x64000000"
debugfs: show_super_stats…
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bat_ventzi
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ext2 to ext4: Convert/upgrade or create new
We have a filesystem, on LVM, created as ext2 - and in daily use running 8-10 webservers (software, tempfiles, logfiles).
The discs are "local" to the OS, but are really SAN disks provided to the VmWare ESX server. Our "server" is a virtual server…
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How to boot Linux from a 16gb USB flash drive
I'm trying to install Linux on a single partition of a USB flash drive that's larger than 4gb.
The first place I went to is http://pendrivelinux.com. I can follow these instructions for installing Xubuntu 9.04 perfectly, which unfortunately break…
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Chris Harris
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Is it a good idea to let files grow above 2GB in ext2?
I'm working on a program that needs to run on a Linux distro with an ext2 filesystem. This program will write files which may become very large. I notice that ext2 has a maximum file size of 16GB to 64GB. However, one thing on wikipedia's page…
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Jason Baker
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ext2 or ext3 without journaling
I've recently came across several servers with different "strategies" for their /boot partition (btw, always as /dev/sda1, 512M)
Some servers use ext2 for /boot, some use ext3 for /boot, and for the latter some have turned off journaling or turned…
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Ext2-fs error which crops up monthly or sometimes weekly
I have an extremely strange error message which causes a complete system crash and remount of the filesystem as read-only. It all started ages ago when I installed a dodgy $2 ebay PCI modem and there were kernel panics showing up monthly and the…
user16866
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ext4: Online resize not detected
On a RedHat 6 server, we ran into an issue with online resizing of an ext4 filesystem.
With only /dev/sda we had 13GB available in the volume group, but needed 20GB more on one logical volume which was 36GB. Added /dev/sdb to the volume group, and…
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sastorsl
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Backup SD ext2 partition
I have a Sheeva plug running ArchLinuxArm from SD card and I'd like to backup the SD card so I can restore everything in case something goes wrong.
I'd prefer to create an archive file (rootfs.tar.gz) or image file. I found some instructions but…
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Alfero Chingono
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NFS share: no space left on device
My setup consists of a server, running Ubuntu 10.10, and a device, running a customized Linux. The device gets its kernel and mounts its root filesystem from the server using TFTP and NFS, respectively.
In my exports file I have:
/export/rootfs…
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Thiago Cardoso
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Online resize of ext2 - Bug?
An ext2 filesystem can be resized - as long as the underlying block device can be resized - but not ONLINE.
However, as another posting of mine has showed, if the ext2 filesystem is mounted as ext4 then resize2fs will not give an…
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Mount Ext3 from external drive in Vista
How can I access data from Ext3 partition on external (USB) HDD from Windows Vista box? Or even better from Linux running inside VirtualBox on Vista host.
I'm interested in read, won't need to write, so any read only solution is valid for me (also…
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ext2 dump/restore problem
I am running a mailserver with maildir storage. This means that quite a lot of files are created and I have just run out of inodes. AFAIK there is no magic command to increase number of inodes on ext# filesystem (or am I wrong?) so I have to backup…
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Tomasz Grobelny
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