questions regarding file-system(ext3 or ext4) optimization for sortware-RAID array

2014-03-05 Thread Martin T
Hi, I created a RAID1 array of two physical HDD's with chunk size of 64KiB under Debian "wheezy". As a next step, I would like to create a file-system(ext3 or ext4) to this RAID1 array using mke2fs utility. Questions: 1) Should I use physical HDD sector size(512B in case of my

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread David F
On 11/09/2013 04:09 AM, darkestkhan wrote: > Funny thing (actually not so) - my optic drive is dead. But why do I > have to reboot > into recovery mode? System itself works correctly - /boot is on sda2 > and everything > else is on LVM at sda3 If I understand you correctly that you can boot and us

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-09, darkestkhan wrote: > I created ext3 on sda1 (using mke2fs -j) and it worked for last 20 days. > But after tiday reboot it stopped working - if it would be bad entry in fstab > I would still be able to mount it by hand, but I can't. I have some data > on it that I

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread darkestkhan
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If you have your original debian net-inst dvd, it's probably time to > put the dvd into the drive then reboot the computer into rescue mode. Funny thing (actually not so) - my optic drive is dead. But why do I have to reboot into recovery mod

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
t and check those log files since they'll provide warnings. If you can get smartd-utils to e-mail you so much the better. On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, darkestkhan wrote: > I created ext3 on sda1 (using mke2fs -j) and it worked for last 20 days. > But after tiday reboot it stopped working - if

ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread darkestkhan
I created ext3 on sda1 (using mke2fs -j) and it worked for last 20 days. But after tiday reboot it stopped working - if it would be bad entry in fstab I would still be able to mount it by hand, but I can't. I have some data on it that I would rather not lose (I don't have enough spa

Re: Hi, I have a serious problem with Debian 7. The system is very slow, work with MySQL databases is slow and painful. On Debian 6.0.7 system is very fast and stable, works on ext3 and ext4 on Debian

2013-05-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 23 May 2013 09:15:29 Andrei Hristow wrote: Could you perhaps send this again legibly, i.e. with plain text and in the body of the email? Thanks. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Hi, I have a serious problem with Debian 7. The system is very slow, work with MySQL databases is slow and painful. On Debian 6.0.7 system is very fast and stable, works on ext3 and ext4 on Debian 7.

2013-05-23 Thread Andrei Hristow

Re: journaling on EXT3

2012-06-19 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jim Pazarena: > > I have an EXT3 which is not journaled. > I would like to enable it. You appear to be a little bit confused. Ext3 is always journalled. Ext3 without a journal is ext2. By default, ext3 only writes filesystem metadata to the journal, not file content. If you want

Re: journaling on EXT3

2012-06-18 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 19/06/2012 07:43, Jim Pazarena a écrit : I have an EXT3 which is not journaled. I would like to enable it. So I can modify the entry in fstab to read "data=journal", but I am unsure what command is required on the live system to 'convert' the EXT3 to journaling.

Re: journaling on EXT3

2012-06-18 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/19/2012 07:43 AM, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have an EXT3 which is not journaled. I would like to enable it. So I can modify the entry in fstab to read "data=journal", but I am unsure what command is required on the live system to 'convert' the EXT3 to journaling.

journaling on EXT3

2012-06-18 Thread Jim Pazarena
I have an EXT3 which is not journaled. I would like to enable it. So I can modify the entry in fstab to read "data=journal", but I am unsure what command is required on the live system to 'convert' the EXT3 to journaling. Suggestions would be appreciated. -- Jim Pazarena

Re: wheezy: ext4 or ext3

2012-05-26 Thread Steven Post
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 15:36 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Hans-J., > > "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > > On my new drive I chose ext4 (with luks encryption) for as far as I read, > > most > > people are using ext4 instead of ext3 on ssd drives. >

Re: wheezy: ext4 or ext3

2012-05-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Hans-J., "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > On my new drive I chose ext4 (with luks encryption) for as far as I read, > most > people are using ext4 instead of ext3 on ssd drives. > Is this really recommended? ext4 provides shorter recovery/file system check times, whic

wheezy: ext4 or ext3

2012-05-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi list, I am now a proud user of a ssd drive. As I cloned my system (which was installed 5 years ago) to the drive, the filesystem on the source drive is ext3. On my new drive I chose ext4 (with luks encryption) for as far as I read, most people are using ext4 instead of ext3 on ssd drives

Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-28 Thread Martin T
Stefan: I'm afraid you can't use dd for this because as far as I know dd(1) reads and writes one block at a time and in case new position for file system overlaps with the present one, using dd you will start overwriting the end of the file system with the readings from the start of the file syste

Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> thanks for replies! Is it possible to "slide" partition using the > tools included with e2fsprogs package as well? The e2fsprogs tools only deal with the needs specific to ext[234] partitions. Sliding a partition can be done for any partition you like with `dd'. Stefan -- To UNSUBS

Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-26 Thread Martin T
n Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:50:27PM +, Martin T wrote: >> I have a 500GB((131072000*4096)/1024^3) ext3 filesystem: >> > [cut] >> >> Is it possible to make partition smaller starting from the beginning? >> If yes, do I need to somehow start file system from the

Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-26 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:50:27PM +, Martin T wrote: > I have a 500GB((131072000*4096)/1024^3) ext3 filesystem: > [cut] > > Is it possible to make partition smaller starting from the beginning? > If yes, do I need to somehow start file system from the end of the > partit

Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Martin T: > > Is it possible to make partition smaller starting from the beginning? No. > If yes, do I need to somehow start file system from the end of the > partition? AFAIK that's not possible. The solution for your problem (which involves initial reformatting) is LVM. J. -- There is no ju

shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-25 Thread Martin T
I have a 500GB((131072000*4096)/1024^3) ext3 filesystem: root@debian:~#dumpe2fs /dev/sda9 | egrep "Block count|Block size" dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) Block count: 131072000 Block size: 4096 root@debian:~# ..on a 904GB((1953523711-56924160)*512)/(1024^3)

Re: problem that ext3 not recognized on 4G usb external drive freshly formated. only ext2

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Mitchell Laks writes: > Rashi:/home/mlaks# fdisk /dev/sdd Better use fdisk -luc as suggested in the warning. > Rashi:/home/mlaks# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd1 mkfs -t ext3 ... > Rashi:/home/mlaks# mount -t ext2 /dev/sdd1 /mnt What do you expect when you explicitly mount the FS as ext2?

Re: problem that ext3 not recognized on 4G usb external drive freshly formated. only ext2

2011-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:18:41 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Has anyone seen something like this? > Here is the log of creating an ext3 partition on a device and lack of > recognition as ext3 just ext2. very strange. (...) Safely remove the USB drive and connect it again. Is

problem that ext3 not recognized on 4G usb external drive freshly formated. only ext2

2011-07-22 Thread Mitchell Laks
Has anyone seen something like this? Here is the log of creating an ext3 partition on a device and lack of recognition as ext3 just ext2. very strange. Rashi:/home/mlaks# fdisk /dev/sdd Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS

Re: join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-02 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello, > > can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? > > /dev/sda6      28G   15G   12G  56% /media/armazem > /dev/sda7      19G  8.2G  9.3G  47% /media/despensa > > they both contain data. > > thx > Jo

Re: join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-01 Thread lee
Joao Ferreira Gmail writes: > Hello, > > can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? > > /dev/sda6 28G 15G 12G 56% /media/armazem > /dev/sda7 19G 8.2G 9.3G 47% /media/despensa > > they both contain data. Make a backup of all partitions on the device and

Re: join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-01 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 00:02 +1000, CaT wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > > Hello, > > > > can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? > > > > /dev/sda6 28G 15G 12G 56% /media/armazem > > /dev/sda7

Re: join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-01 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello, > > can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? > > /dev/sda6 28G 15G 12G 56% /media/armazem > /dev/sda7 19G 8.2G 9.3G 47% /media/despensa > > they both contain data. It's

join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-01 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello, can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? /dev/sda6 28G 15G 12G 56% /media/armazem /dev/sda7 19G 8.2G 9.3G 47% /media/despensa they both contain data. thx Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-23 Thread Hartmut Niemann
Hello Karl, hello everybody, thank you Karl for this script. Am So Mai 22 2011 schrieb Karl Vogel: > >> On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote: > H> It often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive > > >Try this version of mkdir earlier in your PATH

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-22 Thread pengvado
On Thu, 19 May 2011, Hartmut Niemann wrote: I observe that it often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive, especially the first directory. What could the reason be? I used to have that problem. I never figured out the cause, but it disappeared when I upgraded from kernel

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-21 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote: H> It often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive >> Am Fr Mai 20 2011 schrieb Karl Vogel: K> What does "strace mkdir /some/directory" show? >> On Fri, 20 May 2011 08:38:41 +0200, said: H> $ s

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-19 Thread Hartmut Niemann
Am Fr Mai 20 2011 schrieb Karl Vogel: > >> On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote: > > H> It often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive > >What does "strace mkdir /some/directory" show? > > $ strace mkdir two execve("/bin/mkdir

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-19 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote: H> It often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive What does "strace mkdir /some/directory" show? -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Q: What lies on the bottom of t

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-19 Thread Hartmut Niemann
Am Do Mai 19 2011 schrieb Tom Grace: > On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote: > > I observe that it often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 > > drive, > > especially the first directory. > > What could the reason be? > If this is a data drive, has i

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-19 Thread Tom Grace
On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote: I observe that it often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive, especially the first directory. What could the reason be? If this is a data drive, has it been spun down to save power ? Do other operations like reading a non-cached file

first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-19 Thread Hartmut Niemann
Hi, I observe that it often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive, especially the first directory. What could the reason be? $ time mkdir hello real0m22.325s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.132s If system time is less than a second, what is eating the other 22 seconds? This

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-23 Thread Dan
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Dan wrote: >> I didn't know that the inodes would take so much space. >> Ext4 would be a better option? >> I chose Ext3 because it is older and it should be more stable >&g

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-23 Thread Doug
On 03/23/2011 02:44 AM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Dan wrote: I didn't know that the inodes would take so much space. Ext4 would be a better option? I chose Ext3 because it is older and it should be more stable therefore better for a server. Moreover I am goi

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Dan wrote: > I didn't know that the inodes would take so much space. > Ext4 would be a better option? > I chose Ext3 because it is older and it should be more stable > therefore better for a server. Moreover I am going to use ecryptfs on > t

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: >>> On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: > > D> I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of 160GB > D> and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition for the > D> wh

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: D> I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of 160GB D> and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition for the D> whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the default D>

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > > On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of >> 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition &g

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of > 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition > for the whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the > defaul

Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
Hi, I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition for the whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the default value in Squeeze. The netinst is creating the ext3 partitions but it is taking

Re: How to recover file system of EXT3 ?

2011-03-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:25:55 +0900, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > When I copied a file with Korean name, the file system might be broken. > The size of copied file is displayed as Tera bytes. My filesystem is > ETX3. > How can I recover the filesystem of ETX3? How did you reach the concluison that your fil

Re: How to recover file system of EXT3 ?

2011-03-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/04/2011 05:25 PM, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: Hi, everyone When I copied a file with Korean name, the file system might be broken. The size of copied file is displayed as Tera bytes. My filesystem is ETX3. How can I recover the filesystem of ETX3? Have you dismounted the partition and run fsck on

How to recover file system of EXT3 ?

2011-03-04 Thread J.Hwan.Kim
Hi, everyone When I copied a file with Korean name, the file system might be broken. The size of copied file is displayed as Tera bytes. My filesystem is ETX3. How can I recover the filesystem of ETX3? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, J.Hwan Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Empty ext3 filesystem after swap starvation

2011-02-13 Thread Benjamin Maisonnas
scan only resulted in a "lost+found is missing, would you like to create it?" (I must say I answered yes, this was dumb). Well, has anyone heard of an entire ext3 fs becoming blank? It seems the fs tree was corrupted at its root somehow, but I know my files are still there. Photorec an

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when gnu-fdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:38:23 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> Then try with another tools like fdisk or sfdisk, to discard a problem >>> with cfdisk. You can even try to run "cfdisk" from any LiveCD of your >>> choice (systemrescuecd is a good one) and che

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when gnu-fdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:38:23 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Then try with another tools like fdisk or sfdisk, to discard a problem >> with cfdisk. You can even try to run "cfdisk" from any LiveCD of your >> choice (systemrescuecd is a good one) and check if it works from there.

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when gnu-fdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:46:14 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> What is your goal for running cfdisk, what do you want to do? >> >> Nothing special, just to see partitions on sdb with cfdisk. > > Then try with another tools like fdisk or sfdisk, to discard a problem > with cfdisk.

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when cfdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:46:14 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:51:46 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >>> I think that that I can run cfdisk on /dev/sda, but can't run cfdisk >>> on /dev/sdb where those ext3 filesystems a

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when cfdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:51:46 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> I think that that I can run cfdisk on /dev/sda, but can't run cfdisk on >> /dev/sdb where those ext3 filesystems are, so mybe this is not an UUID >> issue but a partition problem. > >

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when cfdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
that I can't reach partitions of >>> Debian Squeeze from Debian SID. >> >> Quite strange. > > I think that that I can run cfdisk on /dev/sda, but can't run cfdisk on > /dev/sdb where those ext3 filesystems are, so mybe this is not an UUID > issue but a par

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when cfdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Csanyi Pal
> > Quite strange. I think that that I can run cfdisk on /dev/sda, but can't run cfdisk on /dev/sdb where those ext3 filesystems are, so mybe this is not an UUID issue but a partition problem. I have run on /dev/sdb long time ago Gparted, and after that I installed the Debian Squeeze

Re: Reach ext3 partitions with UUID labels

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:08:31 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: (...) > Debian Squeeze uses UUID's to mount it's partitions, but Debian SID > didn't so I think that cause that that I can't reach partitions of > Debian Squeeze from Debian SID. Quite strange. > How can I convert the way system reach parti

Reach ext3 partitions with UUID labels

2011-01-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I just have installed Debian SID with linux kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP. I installed it following http://io.debian.net/~tar/gnustep/install.txt I have on my PC Box two SCSI hard disks: sda and sdb. Debian SID is on /dev/sda3 and the previously installed Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze is on /dev/s

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-26 Thread Chris Davies
Josef Huber wrote: > Yes, that's quite annoying: I had a similar problem once, because of > hibernation with lenny and xp. Later I had to find out that if you use > only Linux-OSs, the problem occurs as well. Why there isn't any warning > with the file system not being saved correctly - I would re

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Frank put forth on 9/14/2010 12:17 PM: > Further to this problem (I'm getting tired of re-booting) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:17:35 -0400 (EDT), Frank wrote: > > Further to this problem (I'm getting tired of re-booting)...I have > tried copying mail in SYlpheed from Ubuntu (sda3) to Squeeze (sda2) > several times..with and without manually unmounting sda2 before > rebooting. If I unmount sda2 befo

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-14 Thread Frank
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:45:52 -0400 Frank wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:39:17 -0400 (EDT) > Stephen Powell wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:51:12 -0400 (EDT), Frank wrote: > > > One thing I noticed...in Ubuntu's fstab, sda2 is referred to as > > > "/dev/sda2" while the Ubuntu partition is r

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-13 Thread Frank
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:01:08 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: > > >Ubuntu is using the graphical logon/logoff so I can't see what's > > going on, but yes the shutdown is clean. I **assume** the file system > > is being unmounted, but I'd have to disable graphics to see for sure. > > I think i

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-13 Thread Frank
o output, try wipefs (from package util-linux) to > > see if there are any residual file system signatures that may > > be confusing udev/blkid.  But the first thing to try is manually > > umounting the file system in Ubuntu before shutdown. > > Skip the blkid cache with >

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-13 Thread Frank
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:39:17 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:51:12 -0400 (EDT), Frank wrote: > > One thing I noticed...in Ubuntu's fstab, sda2 is referred to as > > "/dev/sda2" while the Ubuntu partition is referenced by the UUID..I > > wonder if this is a problem ? >

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-13 Thread Tom H
udev/blkid.  But the first thing to try is manually > umounting the file system in Ubuntu before shutdown. Skip the blkid cache with blkid -c /dev/null /dev/sda2 Is sda3 ext3 or ext4? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:51:12 -0400 (EDT), Frank wrote: > One thing I noticed...in Ubuntu's fstab, sda2 is referred to as > "/dev/sda2" while the Ubuntu partition is referenced by the UUID..I > wonder if this is a problem ? You said Ubuntu both times. Which is Debian and which is Ubuntu? It should

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-13 Thread Josef Huber
know that! Josef Huber Betreff: Re: ext3 file system Von: Stephen Powell Datum: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:41:32 -0400 (EDT) An: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:28:26 -0400 (EDT), Frank wrote: > > I have been having (minor?) proble

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-13 Thread Frank
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:41:32 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:28:26 -0400 (EDT), Frank wrote: > > > > I have been having (minor?) problems with the ext3 file systems on my > > machine. I have Ubuntu installed on /dev/sda3, with Squeeze on &

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:28:26 -0400 (EDT), Frank wrote: > > I have been having (minor?) problems with the ext3 file systems on my > machine. I have Ubuntu installed on /dev/sda3, with Squeeze on > /dev/sda2. Nearly everytime I go into Ubuntu, then back to Squeeze, > the fi

ext3 file system

2010-09-13 Thread Frank
I have been having (minor?) problems with the ext3 file systems on my machine. I have Ubuntu installed on /dev/sda3, with Squeeze on /dev/sda2. Nearly everytime I go into Ubuntu, then back to Squeeze, the file system check recovers the journal, and finds 8 or 10 orphaned nodes. It seems to happen

read ext3 w/inodes>128 from XP

2010-08-07 Thread Freeman
Hi, I have been looking at windows apps to read/write ext3 partitions. Odd reasons comes up frequently enough that having a ntfs "scratch" partition doesn't resolve, when I have to be booted into XP--such as getting the address to the latest stream I subscribed to. None seem

ext3 to ext4 conversion

2010-07-10 Thread thib
Charles Kroeger wrote: My question is if the hard drive is reformatted with the ext4 file system and I re-install that 'image' [ext3 file system] will the data be corrupted? This doesn't really help, I'll assume you just want to convert your ext3 filesystem (saved in an

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-06-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Siju George : >since ext4 also has a limit No, ext4 has not this limit. The wikipedia article [1] is wrong. Read [2]: Right now the maximum possible number of sub directories contained in a single directory in Ext3 is 32000. Ext4 breaks that limit and allows a unlimited number

Re: Debian Testing / During the installation / Partition Disks / Ext3 failed

2010-06-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Frederic Robert [100603 22:12 +] > Hello, > > During the installation, Debian Testing, there is an error message "The ext3 > file system creation in partition #3 of IDE1 master (hda) failed. What tells the output of the respective bluescreen? Elimar -- We all kn

Debian Testing / During the installation / Partition Disks / Ext3 failed

2010-06-03 Thread Frederic Robert
Hello, During the installation, Debian Testing, there is an error message "The ext3 file system creation in partition #3 of IDE1 master (hda) failed. -- Frederic Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

[OT] Proof pudding (was: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?)

2010-04-26 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 02:15:21PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > and the proof is in the pudding ;-) Actually, the etymology of that phrase is really interesting, because if you think about it, unless it's an alcoholised pudding, there's no proof. The full saying is: "The proof of the pudding i

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/26/2010 07:58 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > >> In English the slash is understood to mean "or". There is no limit of >> 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3. >> >> There is a limi

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-26 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 26 Abr 2010, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: This limit is rarely encountered in practice because it is so much more efficient to use multiple directory levels, e.g.: parent- a- able alf b- beta bravo Hmm... what happ

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > In English the slash is understood to mean "or". There is no limit of > 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3. > > There is a limit of 31998 directories under a directory. This is caused by > the e

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-25 Thread Siju George
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit. > Hi, Sorry for the ambiguity. by files/folders I meant the number of objects inside a directory. But Mike showed there is no such limit for f

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mike Bird wrote: On Fri April 23 2010 21:13:27 Siju George wrote: ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit. Which file system can I use to over come it? I am planning for JFS Does anybody has any recommendations? There is no such limit. ext3 can handle as

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:58:17 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat April 24 2010 07:30:33 Camaleón wrote: >> And wasn't *that* the limit the OP was asking about or I misunderstood >> something? :-? > > OP wrote: "ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat April 24 2010 07:30:33 Camaleón wrote: > And wasn't *that* the limit the OP was asking about or I misunderstood > something? :-? OP wrote: "ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit." As I demonstrated, ext3 can have 5 files in

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:24:04 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:00:37 Camaleón wrote: >> Well, I admit my English is not the very best it could be, but for sure >> the OP concern was "32000 files/folders under a folder" and if I read >>                                 ^^

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
I know. Also in Spanish :-) > There is no limit of 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3. Uh? :-? > There is a limit of 31998 directories under a directory. Uh? :-? And "directory = folder", isnt't it? > This is caused by the ext3 hard link count limit

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:00:37 Camaleón wrote: > Well, I admit my English is not the very best it could be, but for sure > the OP concern was "32000 files/folders under a folder" and if I read >                                 ^^ > that in a correctly manner, it says somethi

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Bird
ner, it says something about *folders under a > folder*... I hope "subdirectories = folders" is still valid. Hi Camaleón, In English the slash is understood to mean "or". There is no limit of 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3. There is a limit of 31998 director

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:46:45 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 24 April 2010 09:16:46 Camaleón wrote: >> Note that "The max number of subdirectories in one directory is fixed >> to 32000." >> >> ¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3 > > The article to wh

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 April 2010 09:16:46 Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:03:57 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 04/23/2010 11:13 PM, Siju George wrote: > >> ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that > >> limit. Which file system can

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Paul (KC9EYE)
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 09:43:27AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit. > Which file system can I use to over come it? > I am planning for JFS > > Does anybody has any recommendations? You are sta

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Siju George put forth on 4/23/2010 11:13 PM: > Hi, > > ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit. > Which file system can I use to over come it? > I am planning for JFS > > Does anybody has any recommendations? It's odd that you'r

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:03:57 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/23/2010 11:13 PM, Siju George wrote: >> ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that >> limit. Which file system can I use to over come it? I am planning for >> JFS >> >> Doe

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/23/2010 11:13 PM, Siju George wrote: Hi, ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit. Which file system can I use to over come it? I am planning for JFS Does anybody has any recommendations? Since Mike Bird has demonstrated your erroneous claim, plz show

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri April 23 2010 21:13:27 Siju George wrote: > ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit. > Which file system can I use to over come it? > I am planning for JFS > > Does anybody has any recommendations? There is no such limit. ext3 can handl

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Siju George : >Hi, >ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that >limit. Which file system can I use to over come it? >I am planning for JFS >Does anybody has any recommendations? ext4 is unlimited. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 is wrong in the sec

overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-23 Thread Siju George
Hi, ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit. Which file system can I use to over come it? I am planning for JFS Does anybody has any recommendations? Thanks --Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: ext3 mkfs issues with a fresh file system ?

2010-01-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:53:00PM +, Bhasker C V wrote: > Bhasker C V wrote: > >Bhasker C V wrote: [ 41 lines sniped] > hardware issue ... please ignore... Could you please trim your replies on this list. -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: ext3 mkfs issues with a fresh file system ?

2010-01-23 Thread Bhasker C V
d filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 25 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. $ sudo e2fsck -f -C0 /dev/mapper/cryptvol e2fsck 1.41.2 (02-Oct-2008) Superblock has an invalid ext3 journal (inode 8). Clear? >&g

Re: ext3 mkfs issues with a fresh file system ?

2010-01-23 Thread Bhasker C V
mation: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 25 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. $ sudo e2fsck -f -C0 /dev/mapper/cryptvol e2fsck 1.41.2 (02-Oct-2008) Superblock has an invalid ext3 journal (inode 8). Clear? >>>> on etc

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