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ext3 is the default file system for many Linux distributions.

ext3 offers many features as a file system - journaling as well as very efficient directory indices.

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How to repair a ext3 filesystem other than fsck

Are there any specialized/preferred tools to repair a filesystem for ext3 (or ext4) other than fsck.ext3, fsck.ext4? Thanks
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How to run fsck on startup after a crash without the root password?

when the Red Hat 5.x workstation of a user crashes and leaves its filesystems with errors, on the next boot, it ask for the root password to enter single mode and run fsck manually. This is annoying because the user can't use his workstation and we…
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How come /bin/rm -rf /backups/hourly.5/ takes forever on a backup server?

They're simply hardlinks so the files shouldn't actually even be deleted. What options do I have? It even seems to take quite some load. I don't see how deleting 30.000 hard-links should take more than a minute, let alone a full hour. I use…
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Ext3 Keeps getting Journal Error and Becoming Read-Only

I have a RHEL5.5 x86_64 server with 2 HBA connecting to EMC and HP storage arrays. EMC PowerPath is installed because my EMC vendor insists on that. My problem is the volumes on HP storage often get journal error (see below) and goes into…
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Problem fixing ext3 root file system using fsck on CentOS 5

When I run a read-only fsck on the mounted root partition of a CentOS 5 server, it finds a number of errors. However, running a forced check upon next boot does not find any! Here are the results of the mounted read-only check: # fsck -nCf / fsck…
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Why does my external USB hard drive refuse to unmount after transferring large tar files to it?

I recently need to transfer large tar files to an external USB hard drive from one Red Hat ES 5 server to another (neither with network connectivity). Originally I was trying to move ~90gig tar file from the server to the external drive. This…
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Recover deleted files in linux , can debugfs command solve my purpose?

I am trying to list deleted files from my ext3 file system. debugsfs command with -ld option , suppose to list deleted files but it only listing current existing files and folder. Is any alternate way without any third party tools to recover deleted…
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25TiB for /home from 16TiB, what to do with ext3?

I have recently lvextend my logical volume (where /home is) from 16TiB to 25TiB. However, when I try to run extend2fs on my /dev/vtrak/home, it complains that resize2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) resize2fs: File too large while trying to determine…
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e2fsck aborts: memory allocation failed

I am trying to fix a 9 TB filesystem with e2fsck, however the scan always fails after about 10% or so with the following error: Error storing directory block information: ... Memory allocation failed e2fsck: aborted The machine runs Ubuntu 10 (64…
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Silent e2fsck - safe to stop?

Before a grow on a 8 TB RAID5, I am currently doing an e2fsck. While the RAID was running w/o issues before (I switched from Ubuntu to CentOS 5.4 because I needed a specific hardware driver), the e2fsck initially turned up a boatload of errors…
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Is it possible to enable online resizing after the fs was created?

I have an Ext3 filesystem sitting on an LVM volume group. The partition was formatted before online resizing was enabled by default. Is it possible to turn this feature on after the fact, like journaling, or does it have to be present from the…
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Questions for Ext3/4 Features ( dir_index,filetype) and XFS File system Performance

I am developing an applications which reads huge list of directories and check file types using file command and using ext4 file system. When i look into Ext4 , i see it have two interesting features dir_index filetype i just enabled both…
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Disk space not freed on ext3/raid1 after deleting

I have two 120 GB disks in a software raid1 array (i.e. mirrored), showing as /dev/md2. There's an ext3 filesystem on top of this, mounted at /. # uname -a Linux svnserv 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:47:08 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux Recently,…
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How to copy directories using debugfs?

The debugfs manpage gives the impression that the command 'rdump . .' will recursively copy all files found on the specified filesystem from the debugfs cwd to the native filesystem's cwd. Instead I seem to receive a syntax error, and no copy is…
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how can i move ext3 partition to the beginning of drive without losing data?

I have a 500GB external drive. It had two partitions, each around 250GB. I removed the first partition. I'd like to move the 2nd to the left, so it consumes 100% of the drive. How can this be accomplished without any GUI tools (CLI only)? fdisk Disk…
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