ext3 (third extended filesystem) is a journaled file system that is commonly used by the Linux kernel.
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How to view bad blocks on mounted ext3 filesystem?
I've ran fsck -c on the (unmounted) partition in question a while ago. The process was unattended and results were not stored anywhere (except badblock inode).
Now I'd like to get badblock ...
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How can I restore my linux?
I had an hard-drive with two partitions: one was 460GB NTFS and the other was 5GB ext3 Ubuntu 10.10.
I wanted to extend the Ubuntu partition, so I was going to shrink the NTFS partition by 15GB, but I ...
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EXT3 file system pre digest material
I am looking for understanding EXT3 filesystem source code. I think I need a little pre-digestion to fully understand the code. Can anyone please suggest some material(blog etc.) where I can get some ...
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All my superblocks are corrupt!
I am having a problem with my ubuntu ext3 filesystem. I can't boot from it or mount the volume when running live CD.
When I try e2fsck I get: "Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open ...
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How to check accurately the remaining disk space on a partition?
I have my /home partition formatted as ext3. Occassionally, some program that is part of GNOME is giving notifications about there only being 700mb of space left. Nautilius tells me I have 5.6GB. Disk ...
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More free blocks than reserved, but still I get “no space on device”
As you see in this dumpe2fs -h output (snipped the end, left the head in case something is important), I have more (about 86000 more, in fact) 'Free blocks' than are reserved, but I get a "no space on ...
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mount root fs to /target
I am installing crunchbang linux (#!) to my eeePC and it is unable to start the disk partitioner. I traced the problem to partman and partman-lvm that states
No volume groups found.
So I have ...
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How to repair an ext3 partition after broken resize operation?
I was using gparted to resize a near-terabyte ext3 partition, adding about 40 GB to the left. After nearly 12 hours of moving data (and with 23 more hours estimated to remain) the system hung. Now ...
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What does file version mean: lsattr -v
lsattr -v gives me the "version number" of given file(s).
What does this mean?
On Redhat 7.3, I could've sworn all the version numbers were 1 except
those I changed with chattr -v.
On Fedora 11, ...
