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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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ext3 mount options differ from linux kernel doc

I'm playing in my server lab with ext3 filesystem mount options, looking the kernel doc https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt I'm using redhat 5.8, if try to mount the fs in this way mount -o noload /dev/vgmirror/lvmirror…
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can i say "NO" to "Clone multiply-claimed blocks" in fsck?

I need to know if i can still mount the volume when i tell fsck "no" in that question. i dont need to repair all the files in the volume, i just need recover one single file for this event. the volume got some big files that put fsck stuck for…
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ext3 converted to ext4 still being mounted as ext3

I have a somewhat bizzare problem at the moment with my Debian-system (mainly testing). I used to have a root-partition on lvm that was formatted as ext3. I now booted a live-system and converted the ext3 into ext4 (via tune2fs...) and also did a…
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simple Linux alternative to Windows extpart to extend basic system disk without downtime?

On Windows there is Dell's extpart which allows one to extend a basic system disk (NTFS) of a running system without downtime. It looks like this: C:\>extpart.exe ExtPart - Utility to extend basic disks (Build 1.0.4) (c) Dell Computer Corporation…
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Hard disk error

There seems to be something wrong with my hard drive, but I'm not sure what, or how to proceed. The first sign of any problems was this: I tried making a new directory on my server, but when I did so, it hung for like 30 seconds, then gave this…
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EXT3 with no (write) cache

I want to mount an ext3 filesystem with no caching at all, most importantly no write caches since I want everything to be flushed to disk right away. Can anyone share the needed flags for such a functionality, I am having trouble finding this at the…
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deleting files only frees space partially (ext3 / ext4)

I just did something similar to this: $ du -sh /bigdata/stuff 1022G /bigdata/stuff $ df -h /bigdata Fileystem Size Used Avail Used% mounted on /dev/sda5 1,8T 1,7T 140G 93% /bigdata $ rm -rf /bigdata/stuff/* $ df -h /bigdata Fileystem …
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Moved data from an ext4 volume to an ext3 volume and it is consuming more space, why?

Just need a simple answer, did some searching and couldn't find it. What is the metadata overhead with ext3 as compared to ext4? I migrated a number of volumes from a SAN that was using ext4 volumes to a new storage array that is formatted as ext3…
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Why is kjournald extremely active on a mostly quiescent filesystem?

Note: This is a "documenting my process" question that I'll be writing an answer to. Happily, serverfault already helped me solve this, because writing up my situation so others would be able to assess it caused me to realize what was…
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Recover ext3 files from hard disk with bad sector

I have a folder of about 5GB that suddenly disappeared. When I checked its hard disk, I found out it has bad sector for about 2-3MB on this folder. Maybe it is on the folder's pointer. The partition is EXT3 , and operating system is Debian. I tried…
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LVM failure recovery

We have an server PC with "intel matrix storage manager" raid (or maybe 'fake' raid) controller. Firstly there were one RAID-1 with two equal seagate disks of 1TB size. We've installed ubuntu server there, partitioned disk with standard partitions.…
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Compact Flash mounted Read Only

I have a board, running linux (RedHat, kernel: 2.4.32). The board has been up and running since long time. However suddenly, some errors are being observed in the logs, and the Compact Flash (present on the board) gets mounted as read-only. Here are…
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Mimic NTFS "Modify" Permissions on an ext3 acl enabled filesystem in linux?

I am migrating our file share from Windows Server to Samba on Linux, and the only hurdle I have at the moment is the acl's. Currently we have a number of directories that use the "Modify" permission on NTFS, so users can write to a directory, but…
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LVM striping bottleneck

So, I have a server with a 3.5TB mysql database with innodb file for each table. It has 24 2.5" 10K HDs in 4 disk RAID 10 groups attached as 1TB datastores via vmware ESXi. All 6 are LVM striped into one 6TB ext3 disk Right now, I'm doing a sudo…
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Shredding data on a live server

Which is the best way to shred all data from a live dedicated server? I have no physical access nor any out of band remote management functionality to the server, only SSH access. Server is running Debian 6 Update Server has ext3 partitions. From…
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