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How to recover data from a corrupted ext3 partition?

A server of mine had a drive failure of some sort which caused the OS (CentOS 5) to crash and stop working (it refuses to boot). So we put another drive with a working OS and from there we try to ...
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After using lvextend, I can't recover unused space

I needed to add more disk space to my CentOS VM, so I added another virtual disk, then used lvextend to add the space to the existing partition. The steps I followed was: echo "- - -" > ...
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sharing an ext3/ext4 partition on external drive

is there a way of sharing an ext3/ext4 formatted partition on an external USB drive between different users (uids) on different Linux machines without creating a group for this purpose, setting the ...
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Convert an ext4 partition to ext3 without formatting the HDD

I would like to convert an ext4 partition to ext3 partition without formatting the HDD. Is this possible and recommended?
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pvcreate on a ext3 partition, is it dangerous?

I know pvcreate a LVM physical volume usually on a LVM partition, but I do a pvcreate on a empty ext3 partition accidentally, is this dangerous, do I really need to repartition with LVM format on the ...
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How to recover this Linux partition?

I have this netbook, where the partition table looks like this ~$ fdisk netbook.dd Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): p Disk ...
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HDD Partitionning on a live system under Debian and ext3

I have my server running under Debian using ext3. All the whole root is into a single main partition on a single hard drive. I would like to create a second ext3 partition on the same hard drive. So ...
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Can I make an ext3 filesystem recognize (and use) the entire partition?

Using gparted and partimage from SysRescCD I recently made a backup image of the partition containing my Ubuntu installation, deleted all partitions except for the original Windows partitions ...
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USB drive only for Linux backups: To partition or not to partition?

I have a 2TB USB drive plugged into CentOS 5.5 that will be formatted with ext3 and will only be used for file-level backups. I've always partitioned my drives but a while ago when I had setup Amazon ...
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how can i move ext3 partition to the beginning of drive without losing data?

I have a 500GB external drive. It had two partitions, each around 250GB. I removed the first partition. I'd like to move the 2nd to the left, so it consumes 100% of the drive. How can this be ...
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How do I restore a partimage image to a smaller drive?

Without thinking, I made a partimage image of a ~1TB ext3 partition, which only actually contained about 2GB of data, so gzipped down to that size. I then wiped it and used it for something else. I'd ...
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Does a resize of a partition typically stretch the existing size of the used space on your file system?

On a dual boot system (Vista/Jaunty) I wanted to take some unallocated space and enlarge my ext3 partition. Upon doing so I noticed that the disk check that runs from parted kept failing at the end ...