ext4 (fourth extended filesystem) is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as the successor to ext3.
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ext4: How to account for the filesystem space?
I've recently formated a 1.5 TB drive with the intention of replacing ntfs with ext4.
Then I noticed that the files I saved don't fit on the new partition.
df:
ext4 (ext3 & ext2 show the same ...
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Recover formatted ext3 partition
Suppose you have an ext3 partition which was unfortunately formated as ext4 partition (and where now are some but not a lot new files on it). Is there any way to recover (some) files from the old ext3 ...
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Recovering ext4 superblocks
Recently, my external hard drive enclosure failed (the hard drive itself powers up in another enclosure). However, as a result, it appears its EXT4 file system is corrupt.
The drive has a single ...
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How are files laid out in ext2/ext3/ext4?
A few days ago all my metadata on a ext4 format flash card was overwritten.
I am now going to speculate on how this happened. This is pure speculation. It happened just after I used a different ...
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Can't mount EXT4 hard drive after mounting it in windows
I have a 2TB Western external HDD.
Its original filesystem was NTFS but I formatted it to EXT4.
I had no problem in Linux; But today after I mounted it using ext2fsd in a windows box, I cant mount it ...
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Can I convert an ext3 partition into ext4 without formatting?
my home directory is on a separate partition which still uses ext3. Is there a way to convert this partition into ext4 in a non-destructive way?
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Birth is empty on ext4
I was just reading up on the Birth section of stat and it appears ext4 should support it, but even a file I just created leaves it empty.
~ % touch test ...
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How do I determine the new size for resize2fs?
I want to shrink an ext4 filesystem to make room for a new partition and came across the resize2fs program. The command looks like this:
resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/ExistingExt4 $size
How should I ...
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Is it possible to change Inode count on an ext4 filesystem? [duplicate]
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How can I increase the number of inodes in an ext4 filesystem?
I have a homemade NAS with Debian Wheezy 64bit. It has three disks - 2x2TB and 1.5TB, pooled together ...
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Why could the size of the “dot file” /. exceed 4096?
Today I found an "empty" directory with a size of 4MB.
It had no visible contents, so I tried ls -lah. This showed me some hidden files (not very large). Searching for the reason why the directory ...
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Grub 2 installed on-partition - how to not embed it
My friend installed ArchLinux on a MacBook Pro alongside Mac OSX and Windows to try it. He's power user, so I only needed to help with the bootloader. Arch Linux's described installation of GRUB did ...
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ext2/3/4 reserved blocks percentage purpose
I know that this feature dates back 20 years but I still would like to find out
What is the purpose of the reserved blocks in ext2/3/4 filesystems?
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Unable to mount /home/ partition after reinstalling grub after reinstalling windows 7
I've reinstall windows 7 on it's asignated partition and, as usually, it override the MBR with it's own stuff and, thus, it was not possible to boot to my ubuntu 12.04 partition.
I followed the step ...
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how to restore a logical partition to it's original ext4 format
This question is following Unable to mount /home/ partition after reinstalling grub after reinstalling windows 7 where the diagnostic was that installing windows 7 deleted my /home partion, lovingly ...
