Questions tagged [ext3]
ext3 is the default file system for many Linux distributions.
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Can Btrfs use SSD for metadata and leave bulk data on HDD?
is it possible for Btrfs to use SSD for metadata only & leave bulk data on less costly storage such as HDD? I refered to this page Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices and can not find a solution.
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Cannot set ACL on ACL-enabled EXT4 partition
I am trying to enable xattrs and acls on a Debian machine. I've (re)mounted the partition in question with user_xattr and acl. (/dev/md3 is the partition in question)
root@fs01:/# mount | grep /dev/...
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serviceable ext3 partition ruined by fsck
I've got several systems with an ext3 lv / that work just fine until fsck'd — then they are unrecoverably corrupted.
What hope do I have of repairing these systems, and, separately, what went wrong?
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Linux ext3 Directory index full - internals
Encountered a situation today on a server that has me wondering. Here's the scenario:
Syslog shows:
kernel: EXT3-fs warning (device sdb2): ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full!
Found the ...
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Updating OpenBoot PROM on Sun Fire v440
After i have updated ALOM firmware on Sun Fire v440, i decided to update OpenBoot PROM, but when i try to load the patch using
boot disk /flash-update-SunFire440
i get:
SILO
Fatal Error: Multiple ...
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How to copy a file using using raw disk blocks?
The underlying raw disk blocks that a file uses can be seen with command filefrag. And in the example below I could use dd to copy all 11 chunks and cat them together to construct an exact copy of ...
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Why is nfs server not seeing resized filesystem size?
On the NFS server, when I extend the the logical volume (using lvm2) and subsequently the ext4 fs on top of it (using resize2fs), I'm able to see the new size locally with df. But the NFS clients ...
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Debian mail server's Maildir folder with too many files causing disk I/O to go on high load
I have a Debian mail server running Postfix, Courier and Maildir, with disks on EXT3 filesystem.
I have noticed that when I use my webmail application (Squirrelmail, in this case). It gets some kind ...
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ext3 mount options differ from linux kernel doc
I'm playing in my server lab with ext3 filesystem mount options, looking the kernel doc
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
I'm using redhat 5.8, if try to mount the fs in ...
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deleting files only frees space partially (ext3 / ext4)
I just did something similar to this:
$ du -sh /bigdata/stuff
1022G /bigdata/stuff
$ df -h /bigdata
Fileystem Size Used Avail Used% mounted on
/dev/sda5 1,8T 1,7T 140G 93% /bigdata
$ rm -...
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LVM failure recovery
We have an server PC with "intel matrix storage manager" raid (or maybe 'fake' raid) controller. Firstly there were one RAID-1 with two equal seagate disks of 1TB size. We've installed ubuntu server ...
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How to change switch to a different root partition
I am using AWS EC2 instance with Ubuntu 10.04 installed on it. I start with the instace which has its root partition at /dev/sda1. Later I want to attch a new EBS volume at /dev/sdb1 and want to get ...
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What is the purpose of having a "/" and a "/home" partition in linux?
I'm doing a clean install of CentOS 8 minimal, and by default it suggests these paritions:
swap swap 4G
/boot ext3 512M
/ ext4 2014G
/home ext4 all
(this is with a pair of 4TB NVMe drives in ...
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Behaviour of ext3 filesystem when it hits %100
We had an unexpected increase on one of our mount points (~40GB) on a old RHEL 4 server (2.6.9-89.0.2 x86_64 kernel). It hit %100 usage ( Size and Used both said 37G, Avail said 0) as per df -h.
I ...
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read-only symlinks replaced with file when edited
I'm about to make a copy of a website (templates)
Would it be possible to make symlinks, so changes in the original is reflected in the copy, but if I edit the copy, the symlink is replaced with the ...
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Having trouble mounting an mdadm array. Corrupted Filesytem?
I have a server that crashed and won't power on. I don't care about the server, but I'd like to recover the data attached to 2 external usb drives that were mirrored (raid 1) using mdadm. This system ...
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change file system from ext3 to ext4 effict on MySQL
I have a situation where MySQL was installed in Linux with a ext3 file system. One table (InnoDB) reached the maximum size allowed for ext3 (2 TB) , insert statement gave "The table 'foo' is full". I ...
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Move an ext3 fs to a larger mdadm array in one step
I have an ext3 fs on an mdadm array of 1TB disks on an openSUSE system, and I want to move the fs to a new array of (the same number of) 3TB disks. I can have the system running with this fs ...
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Program complains not enough disk space even if the disk space exists
I have an EXT3 partition mounted in ordered data mode. If a power failure occurs when a program is creating files on that partition, I see that space usage reported is normal and I don't see any ...
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force fsck to fail on boot
I am working on a embedded debian linux device. Owing to the power being pulled at any time resulting in a sudden power loss, we have set FSCKFIX from "no" to "yes" in the /etc/default/rcS file. ...
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Debian - move partitions to a new drive
I have a XenServer6 VM with Debian Squeeze 64bit and only 1 partition /dev/xvda1 95 GB + linux partitions:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 95G 63G ...
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Why would an ext3 filsystem be rolled back on a Debian VM running in VirtualBox after loss of power to the host
A Debian Virtual machine runs as a Guest VirtualBox VM. It's filesystem is EXT3. The host system loses power and after booting up the host system and guest VM, I find that the VM's filesystem has been ...
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Problems with degraded RAID arrays
My Ubuntu backup server was recently upgraded in storage space to a RAID 10 array... now it consists of 8T of raw drive space which was before 2T of space.
But I have been having trouble when it ...
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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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Impossible to read / delete some files
How can I fix a message like this (read after a dmesg command)?
EXT4-fs error (device hdb1): ext4_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 119197
EXT4-fs error (device hdb1): ext4_free_inode: bit already ...
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RHEL - blocked FC remote port time out: saving binding
My Server went into a faulty state since the database could not write on the
partition. I found out that the partition went into Read Only mode. Finally to
fix it, I had to do a hard reboot.
Linux
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my ext3 to ext4 dont work
my tools on centos 5.11
kernel - 3.2.69
util-linux-ng-2.17 ( mount 2.17 )
e2fsprogs-1.41.14
grub-1.97
this tool and kernel are all working
my steps
boot on recovery
change the fstab (/dev/...