Questions tagged [ext2]
ext2 (second extended filesystem) is a file system that was commonly used by the Linux kernel, but has been largely replaced by ext3/ext4.
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How to extract files from EXT2 filesystem
debian11. I copied EXT2 filesystem from some dump file. I'm not sure if this file is intact or has no errors.
$ file ext2file
ext2file: Linux rev -1358692254.9334 ext2 filesystem data (mounted or ...
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copy Linux EXT filesystem use dd
I used binwalk to scan firmware image, uncompressed & raw RAM dump. When scan for signatures with -I flag there is reference to Linux EXT filesystem:
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
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ext2 How to choose bytes/inode ratio
How approximately calc bytes-per-inode for ext2?
I have 7.3GB storage (15320519 sectors 512B each). I have made ext2 filesystem with block size 4096
mke2fs /dev/sda2 -i 524288 -m 0 -L "SSD" -...
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How can I write a file to a specific inode on an ext2 image?
I have an ext2 image file, and I need to write a file to a specific inode within the image using command line utilities in Linux. I tried using debugfs but I couldn't find a way to write to a specific ...
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How are block devices physically addressed in a file system
In this book, the following is mentioned about filesystem addressing:
A file system does not need to concern itself with where on the physical media a block should be put, that is the job of the ...
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Get Test EXT2 IMG file
I have a task for university to deal with EXT2 file recovery. The problem is that the example drives (as IMG files) we got only contain one block group. I want to test if I read the drive correctly so ...
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Install grub on ext2
Is it possible to install (and use) grub on the same ext2 partition as the linux root directory?
(Should you want to discuss 'why': to try, to understand and master.)
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mkfs ext2 ignore number-of-inodes
I want to make ext2 file system. I want to set "number-of-inodes" option to some number. I tried several values:
if -N 99000 then Inode count: 99552
if -N 3500 then Inode count:
3904
if -N ...
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Unix ext2 superblock - file system creation date
I am trying to find the creation date on an ext2 file system. I seem to get a current date using dumpe2fs.
The problem is that the original ext2 superblock specification does not contain such ...
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Unable to edit the content of a mounted ext2 image
I have an image (from an Android phone) for which file gave the following info:
file vendor-rw.img
vendor-rw.img: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data, UUID=64d47c8e-6f74-54ea-bbe7-ce29a05c4b04, volume ...
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what is this “first inode” reported by dumpe2fs?
using dumpe2fs on some ext4 partition, I get in the initial data, that the first inode is #11. However, if I ls -i on this disk root partition, I get that it's inode number is #2 (as expected). So... ...
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Calculate correctly the ext2 used blocks by the file system
What I'm trying achieve is, a safe shrinking of an ext2 file system and make sure I can cut/shrink the physical partition underneath to a safe minimum (without cutting file system blocks). I have ...
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A question about ext2_sb_info
I study the ext2_sb_info structure (the memory data structure for ext2 superblock) and i noticed the existence of a field declared as
u32 s_next_generation;
I searched the web but it was not possible ...
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Inconsistent filesystem type reported after disabling journalling
In trying to understand why kworker flush uses 99% I/O and hangs file write on machine, I've disabled journalling on the ext4 data partitions using:
tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sdg1
After a reboot, ...
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why can gnome disks not format ext2 or ext3?
Why does the GUI tool for formatting disks have no option to format with ext2 and ext3 filesystems? Why would a tool used for formatting exclude these filesystems? What is the rationale behind this ...
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