Questions tagged [ext3]
ext3 (third extended filesystem) is a journaled file system that is commonly used by the Linux kernel.
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hdparm causes drive spin up after spindown
I have followed the manual of hdparm to try to make the drive spindown after a few minutes of inactivity but as soon as it spins down it turns back on again within 30 seconds but I don't hear any disk ...
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What happens if you never ever run e2fsck?
We have servers which have been running for a long time. When they reboot, we see this message:
kernel: EXT4-fs (sda3): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
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how to locate the root cause of a corrupted ext3 filesystem
I have a 4G Compact Flash card with a 2.5G ext3 partition. The file system has become corrupted. I am not necessarily interested in fixing the file system as identifying exactly what is corrupted in ...
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How did my ext3 superblocks get so messed up? And how to fix them?
I've recently found an old external hard disk and I have no idea what's on it. There was only one partition, encrypted with dm-crypt. Luckily I still remembered some of the passphrases that I used ...
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statvfs returns invalid information
My eMMC partition is ext4 formatted and has about 100MB. When I issue statvfs() on that partition, I get huge return value for f_blocks field of struct statvfs.
struct statvfs {
unsigned long ...
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Cannot mount USB External HD with ext3, possible hardware failure
I'm a Software Engineer with limited SysEng experience. I have a few weeks old "WD 4 TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive", that is a USB 4 TB External HD. I've installed it on Raspberry ...
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How to resize root ext3 file system without LVM
My Debian vmware image has run out of space. I've expanded the disk image but now need to increase my root partition to see the additional space. My volume is setup as follows
Disk /dev/sda: 50 GiB, ...
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Issue with device after formatting
I need some help with an SSD disk drive that I am using, or trying to.
I encrypted the SSD with cryptsetup, then I forgot about it (there were some files). I rewrote the disk drive completely (using ...
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Why is the EXT3 FS size much smaller vs. partition size?
We have a partition, which is exactly 50 GByte sized:
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/...
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How to enlarge an ext3/ext4 filesystem through debugfs?
I’m in a situation where I want to enlarge the default size of an ext4 filesystem used by the firmware.
The problem is resize2fs is doing extra things like clearing some filesystems features and ...
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File timestamps precision - ext3 with nanoseconds, ext4 with milliseconds
People say ext3 supports file timestamp precision up to seconds and ext4 up to nanoseconds.
What happens is that my old VPS running Ubuntu 12.04 with an ext3 filesystem always (as far as I can ...
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Can I resize a filesystem without resizing the partion in advance?
Quick question: Can I resize a filesystem without resizing the partition in advance? The question aims at growing, but information on shrinking might be useful for future reference too.
Here's the ...
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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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Are file system such as ext3 stored in SSD sequentially?
There are superblock, group descriptor table, inode bitmap, data bitmap , inode table ,etc.
As I understood. these are stored in virtual memory sequentially.
Are these metadata(superblock, group ...
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Convert / and /boot from ext3 to btrfs
Is it possible to convert / and /boot file system from ext3 to btrfs? I have not experienced converting previously but I seen that filesystem from ext3 needs to be unmounted.
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