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.
Questions tagged [ext3]
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HDD Partitionning on a live system under Debian and ext3
I have my server running under Debian using ext3. All the whole root is into a single main partition on a single hard drive.
I would like to create a second ext3 partition on the same hard drive.
So is there a way to resize a live partition and…
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Unmounted root partition
My server running Debian lenny has just had a power cut recently and its come back up with the root partition in read only mode. I tried to remount the filesystem in read write mode with mount -n -o remount,rw / which then gave the output mount:…
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Can't Mount Remote Share From RHEL 6
I'm trying to upgrade some Linux systems to RHEL 6, but I cannot mount the home directories. I'm using EXT4 for the RHEL 6 system and EXT3 on the RHEL 5 server, which I'm mounting the directory from. I can't just use the mount command; I have to…
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openiscsi initiator shared ext3 disk
i have an iscsi target disk with only one ext3 partition on opensolaris using comstar
i also have two ubuntu instances with openiscsi initators that connect to that disk
both instances have this disk mounted (same disk is shared between…
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Repair ext3 partition on external disk from Ubuntu 10.10
Currently, what is the best way or tool to repair an ext3 partition?
There used to be fsck, but the disk is an external USB, and using the latest Ubuntu 10.10, I wondered if there might be a new tool that helps?
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ext3 optimization for 3D design /modelign (Maya 2011) in Centos 5.4 x64
Today i have been partitioning a 1TB hard disk where i want to install tomorrow Centos 5.4 x64 for use for 3D modelling,with Maya 2011.
I created a 10 GB swap ( 8GB ran + 2) a 620 gb partition for lvm , with one volume group , and two logical…
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bash: loop over 20000 files slow - why?
A simple loop over a lot of files is half as fast on one system vs. the other.
using bash, I did something like
for * in ./
do
something here
done
Using "time" I was able to confirm, that on system2 the "something here"-part runs faster than on…
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Resizing ext2/3 partitions (including /usr) on a live system
I'm building a system with fairly limited disk space that will use LVM, and I'd like to be able to resize the partitions as freely as possible without bringing the system down. In particular, I'd like to be able to grow or shrink* /usr.
As I…
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USB drive only for Linux backups: To partition or not to partition?
I have a 2TB USB drive plugged into CentOS 5.5 that will be formatted with ext3 and will only be used for file-level backups.
I've always partitioned my drives but a while ago when I had setup Amazon EBS the docs said to just format the whole device…
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Log file is missing, how can I see that and what happened to it
A process identified by process id 2147 is running, but its logfile is nowhere to be found. The filesystem is ext3 and 100MB of space remains. nothing went wrong in process
2147. An lsof of process 2147 reveals that the log file is still open.
a.…
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Debian - resize root ext3 partition on remote system
I want to resize (shrink) root ext3 fs partition of remote Debian 5.0 system. There is no LVM.
Is it possible without using a livecd? E.g. via custom initrd.img.
And second problem - Can I instuct grub to use different options only at first next…
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How to install Xenserver Properly
When I installed xenserver 7, It asked me if I want thick or thin provisioning. Thinking this is a production server I must have chosen EXT because I had problems with LVM before with balooning of disk space (once areas have cleared up). Not to…
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What is the purpose of having a "/" and a "/home" partition in linux?
I'm doing a clean install of CentOS 8 minimal, and by default it suggests these paritions:
swap swap 4G
/boot ext3 512M
/ ext4 2014G
/home ext4 all
(this is with a pair of 4TB NVMe drives in software RAID 1)
I understand the need/benefit of…
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tune2fs says "clean with errors". What next?
tune2fs says "clean with errors". What next?
We rebooted the server, but this did not help.
What is not the next most feasible step?
This is a production system. I would like to avoid down-times.
foo-host:~ # /sbin/tune2fs -l…
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What happens if fsck.ext4 -y is run on a ext3 fs and how to I recover from it
I had a mountable fs (pretty sure it was ext3), fsck.ext4 was run with -y and ended in a segmentation fault. Now it is unmountable (dmesg says it's corrupt) and identifies as a ext4 fs via the "blkid" command. The fs happens to sit on a raid 0 array…
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