Questions tagged [ext4]
Use this tag for all questions about the ext4 (fourth extended) file system, which has been the default file system in Ubuntu since 2009.
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Ubuntu 24.04.3 ext4 dual external drive system causes crash on Raspberry Pi 4
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB. I have installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and keep it updated. The current version is 24.04.3. The boot volume is an external USB 3.2 512GB SSD. This system is being set up as an ...
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Samsung T7 Shield + LUKS + ext4 causes USB resets and I/O errors
I have a Samsung T7 Shield 4 TB with a LUKS-encrypted partition and ext4 filesystem with default mount options on Ubuntu 22.04. Writing large files (~1–2 GB) causes the drive to hang, USB resets, and ...
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Is there still space on my 0% ext4?
/dev/sdb1 3.6T 3.6T 0 100% /hdd-scratch
Above is the output of df -h
I'm on Proxmox and my HDD ext4 disk is at 100%, but for some reason, my bittorrent client is still able to ...
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Recently Trashed Items Not Showing in Trash Until Reboot
This is a common problem on my setup, not just a one-time thing:
If I trash items on an external HDD (which is formatted using ext4, and mounted to /mnt/my_hdd), then go into the Trash and sort by &...
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Data lost after Ubuntu Server reinstall (HDD mounted without formatting, but partition disappeared)
I’d like to ask for advice about an accidental data loss issue.
During a reinstall of Ubuntu Server (from Bionic to Noble Numbat), I set up the mount points. For one of the HDDs, I specified a mount ...
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How to get access to remaining LVM space on drive [duplicate]
Disclaimer: Treat me like I know nothing. That is, don't presuppose I automatically know something I need to do before anything you tell me to do. You won't irritate me by telling me something I do ...
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How to recover an overwritten EXT4 Partition table deleted during restoring image with Clonezilla
Problem: I have corrupted an important ext4 partition on my 2TB NvME SSD and need help to recover the data. I tried to use testdisk and it shows too many entries for the and selecting the entries ...
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Change Partition SSD
How do I add partition space for the OS? I am using GParted and indeed I can take space from the swap partition but this analocated space cannot be joined by the OS partition and I also have the ...
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ext4 filesystem corrupted, directories still readable, files not readable
I have an x86-64 system running Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (recently upgraded from 22.04.5).
The root filesystem is on a 3 or 4 terabyte SATA hard drive (not an SSD).
Recently the filesystem stopped working ...
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Ubuntu Server 24.04.02 - System reboots during mkfs.ext4 on LUKS encrypted NVMe SSD
I'm experiencing an issue where my system automatically reboots during filesystem creation on a LUKS-encrypted NVMe drive.
System Details:
Ubuntu Server 24.04.02
Edge Device with Raspberry Pi
NVMe ...
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LUKS>ext4 ... files are gone
After doing some experiments and whatnot I ended up with my / and Timeshift partitions both completely full. When I had to run a Timeshift restore, I knew something was wrong when Timeshift was ...
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Why did my Ubuntu installation stop working after using GParted and zerofree?
I have resized the /home partion using GParted (increasing the size). During move and resize operations, GParted warned me that I might be unable to boot afterwards.
Then I run zerofree utility (in ...
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Change Ownership on Ext4 Drive?
Ubuntu 24.04, 6 tb external USB drive; new laptop.
External drive mounts automatically, shows up in whatever file manager I want to use.
All files and folders are locked; no fie can be accessed by ...
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1 bit in the file was changed after calling read() function
After executing transmission-create to generate a metainfo file for a folder, some files in the folder was modified. The stat information indicates that only the access time was changed. Additionally, ...
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Very slow reading of directory tree on secondary SSD
I have 2 SSDs:
$ df -h | grep sd
/dev/sda2 916G 130G 740G 15% /
/dev/sdb3 916G 346G 523G 40% /media/olddisk
Both disks were bought within the last 4 years, plugged into the SATA ...
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