Questions tagged [ext3]
ext3 is the default file system for many Linux distributions.
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Is there any documentation on Ext2 about internal make2fs calculations? For example: Number of GDT Reserved Blocks?
I am studing ext2~ext4 filesystems.
I got curious about one fact envolving 2 pendrives formatted as ext2 and ext3:
The ext2 is about 8 GB disk, the partition has 41 groups, blocks of 4KiB and gd_size ...
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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 ...
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RedHat server not booting: "The superblock could not be read"
After restarting a RedHat server, it fails to boot into the operating system. It says "an error occurred during the file system check". After doing a fsck, it says
The superblock could not ...
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How to copy a file using using raw disk blocks?
The underlying raw disk blocks that a file uses can be seen with command filefrag. And in the example below I could use dd to copy all 11 chunks and cat them together to construct an exact copy of ...
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Can we add more volumes/disks to an existing mounted ext3/ext4 mountpoint?
Have a quick question on adding space via a new disk/block device to a non-root/ext3 mount-point that has data and is mounted.
I Have an ext3 mountpoint '/u01', which has a device '/dev/sdb' attached....
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How to get DRBD to automatically start after reboot, mount volume, start service, and configure primary/secondary
I have a great working version of DRBD across two Debian Stretch servers which I created by following this awesome guide:
https://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-network-raid1-with-drbd-on-debian-...
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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.
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DL380 G5, RAID5, ext3, RAID Failed
We have an old HP DL380G5 server, with 5 300GB SCSI 3.5'' disks in a RAID5 array, in an external bay, formatted as a logical volume with ext3 filesystem, that hosts 1.2 TB of sensitive clinical ...
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Behaviour of ext3 filesystem when it hits %100
We had an unexpected increase on one of our mount points (~40GB) on a old RHEL 4 server (2.6.9-89.0.2 x86_64 kernel). It hit %100 usage ( Size and Used both said 37G, Avail said 0) as per df -h.
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Prevent corruption on ext3 Linux Vms running on Xenserver after Equallogic hung for 45 minutes
I face a problem today with my Storage Equallogic PS4000E, they get stucked for 45 minutes then goes up and running normally, no logs, no nothing to help us discover what happens.
Well, I run a ...
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read-only symlinks replaced with file when edited
I'm about to make a copy of a website (templates)
Would it be possible to make symlinks, so changes in the original is reflected in the copy, but if I edit the copy, the symlink is replaced with the ...
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ext3: permissions of the mountpoint change when I mount
I need ordinary users to be able to mount /dev/loop0p1 and /dev/loop0p2 on my machine. /dev/loop0p1 is always going to be a FAT32 partition and loop0p2 - a ext3.
To that end, I have:
1) created ...
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EXT4 filesystem corruption
I have a CentOS 6x server and running a Java application on it, the application is using a mount point /javapp which is an EXT4 filesystem.
suddenly I got the following error in the system logs:
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Can Btrfs use SSD for metadata and leave bulk data on HDD?
is it possible for Btrfs to use SSD for metadata only & leave bulk data on less costly storage such as HDD? I refered to this page Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices and can not find a solution.
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Having trouble mounting an mdadm array. Corrupted Filesytem?
I have a server that crashed and won't power on. I don't care about the server, but I'd like to recover the data attached to 2 external usb drives that were mirrored (raid 1) using mdadm. This system ...
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