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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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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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Will expanding an EBS ext3 file system cause corruption?

We're using ext3 right now for our EBS file systems and I was wondering if there would be any problems with the following scenario for expanding the size. Create EBS initial size 2GB (ebs1) Snapshot EBS (s1) Create 10GB EBS (ebs2) from snapshot…
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File system for a lot of small files

I'm using NetApp device as a NAS storage. I have a lot of small files (30-60k) and dirs. For example I have: 30000 dirs with another 1000-2000 dirs. A lot of dirs are empty, but most of them have many files (30k). Should I change block size on Ext3?
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How many subdirectories does the XFS filesystem support within a given directory?

EXT3 supports 32,000 subdirectories. EXT4 supports 64,000... I've read about people having millions of subdirectories on the XFS filesystem, but can't find an exact value referenced anywhere. How many subdirectories does the XFS filesystem…
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EXT3 vs EXT4 vs XFS

Recently I read a lot about "new" file systems. I checked some benchmarks that show MySQL working faster on EXT4 or XFS (and some other FS). I also "found" that XFS and EXT4 are included in CentOS 5.X However most of the articles I read speaks…
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"hot swapping" linux md raid1 - does re-mounting file-system temporarily read-only enable safe disconnection?

There's is an ext3 filesystem on top of Linux md raid1, array consists of two hard drives. Various services, including databases run on and write to it. Let's say for argument's sake that to minimize services downtime, it would be nicer to be able…
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EXT3-FS: error (loop0) ext3_lookup unlinking inode

Running CentOS 5.6 with mdadm RAID1, 2TB, 3 partitions (boot, swap and root). I had a kernel panic in the server, and after rebooting, the system stays up for about 5-10 minutes, the it starts printing out fsck errors to the console and the root…
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How to diagnose very bad and slow ext3 behavior?

I'm managing an old admin server running Redhat WS4 update 3, and we have an ext3 volume where I had a large (30GB) sqlite database mounted on /opt. Everytime I do large queries/inserts into this database it raises the IO waits so high that we…
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Directory in Linux(ext3) with only 2 files occupies 32000 blocks(16Mbytes)

IIRC my Operating Systems classes, the size of a directory in Linux is given by the number of files it contains([wikipedia link])1 So, why a directory with only 2 files occupies 32000 blocks? # stat . File: «.» Size: 16855040 Blocks:…
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Any chance to recover formatted hard drive LVM to ext3

I am a big fool. But i believe this could be the event for every serious linux administrator. I Accidentally formatted my hard drive from LVM to Ext3. I tried some of the recovery tools. I can see around 13 GB recovery from 500+ GB contents. I…
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System crashes after ext3_block_to_path

I have some soft which runs by cron. But once per day system crashes and only reboot helps. This is the latest log (/var/log/syslog) before crashing: Jul 31 05:00:01 T217 /USR/SBIN/CRON[22629]: (root) CMD (/root/TorrentStealer/cron.sh) Jul 31…
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How to increase filename size limit on EXT3 (on ubuntu)

The default limit of how long a filename can be on EXT3 is 255 characters. I have a unique requirement where I need much longer filenames (apparently because mod_rewrite of apache uses filenames for storing). Is there any setting I can tweak to…
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Can ext3 partition be cloned with NortonGhost 11.5?

I have clone NTFS Partition for how many years, but Ext Partition of Linux not ever since. To those who have experience with this, any comment either bad or good. Thanks.
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pvcreate on a ext3 partition, is it dangerous?

I know pvcreate a LVM physical volume usually on a LVM partition, but I do a pvcreate on a empty ext3 partition accidentally, is this dangerous, do I really need to repartition with LVM format on the target disk?
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ext3 Journalling

Does only the metadata get journalled in ext3 or does the data get journalled too?
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