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Extended partition should have many filesystems
I need some related information on the following lines I found in an answer:
A logical partition is a container for a filesystem (or an LVM volume or some swap space or a BSD partition or other ...
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Resize non-LVM ext4 root partition
How can I shrink/resize a non-LVM ext4 root partition?
The problem is I can't unmount it and I don't have physical access.
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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 ...
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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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recovering ext4 partition after dd'ing over start of HD
I accidentally used dd and wrote over the first 208MB of my external disk. What I wrote over is a partition on its own (Debian nestinstaller) so what I see now is not my old (now damaged) ext4 ...
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Recreating EXT4 partition without losing data [duplicate]
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Can't mount EXT4 hard drive after mounting it in windows
I have a 2TB Western External USB harddisk.
I formatted it to EXT4.
one time I plugged it to a windows ...
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Why my partitions don't show the right capacity on a 4096 byte physical block hard drive?
After reading a lot about why newer 4096 byte physical block hard drives should be partitioned taking care of alignment (Linux on 4KB-sector disks: Practical advice, What is partition alignment and ...
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How can I shrink a LUKS partition, what does `cryptsetup resize` do?
I am in progress of resizing a LUKS encrypted partition that contains a single ext4 filesystem (no LVM or something). The cryptsetup FAQ recommends to remove the old partition and recreate it, but ...
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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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Creating an ext4 partition fails with “invalid blocks count”
Environment:
- Virtual machine on VMWare ESX 4.0
- OS: fully up to date RHEL 5.8
After adding a new (virtual) disk I want to create an ext4 partition on LVM on this disk.
Steps taken so far:
$ sudo ...
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Use testdisk and gpart information to mount ext4 partition
I am trying to recover the ext4 partition table of a 2TB disk, where I have 900.000 files. I have cloned the original HD and now I am working on the cloned HD. And I am running Parted Magic Live CD.
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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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Defragging an ext partition?
Why don't ext2/3/4 need to be defragmented? Is there no fragmentation at all?
