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)

Empty ext3 filesystem after swap starvation

2011-02-13 Thread Benjamin Maisonnas
Hi there, Using Sid, I recently did an aptitude upgrade which went into a crazy dependency resolving process (maybe because of squeeze being released and me not doing a full-upgrade). It ate all of my 1.5go of ram, then started eating my 2go of swap. By the time I had only 50mo of ram left (c

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:19:29AM +0100, Jose Legido wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:20:57AM +0100, Jose Legido wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Alex Samad wrote: > >> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:29:12PM -0500, Jose Legido w

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-25 Thread Jose Legido
what the problem is, have a look at dmesg and >> > syslog. >> >> >> Too late I recreate, there are any diference in assemble and >> recreate? Excuse me my ignorance > > recreate creates a new md device - blank, although there are some > options to ma

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
ld try and assemble them (not > > recreate them) and see what the problem is, have a look at dmesg and > > syslog. > > > Too late I recreate, there are any diference in assemble and > recreate? Excuse me my ignorance recreate creates a new md device - b

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Jose Legido
device, I would try and assemble them (not > recreate them) and see what the problem is, have a look at dmesg and > syslog. Too late I recreate, there are any diference in assemble and recreate? Excuse me my ignorance Thanks! > > I would work it from there. > > >

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
x27;s or sd's. work out the problem from there. Then look at the raid device, I would try and assemble them (not recreate them) and see what the problem is, have a look at dmesg and syslog. I would work it from there. > > > > Alex > > > >> I loaded an old kerne

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Jose Legido
onf ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4 UUID=0768075c:5ca2c100:d4d8cd15:f227f389 How can I know md0 filesystem? > Alex > >> I loaded an old kernel. Know, when I try to mount my RAID i get this error: >> #  mount -t ext3 /dev/md0 /mnt/raid/ >>  VFS: Can't find ext3 file

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
ices are not defined with device, but with UUID's Alex > I loaded an old kernel. Know, when I try to mount my RAID i get this error: > # mount -t ext3 /dev/md0 /mnt/raid/ > VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev md0. > > What can I do? > > Thanks > >

Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Jose Legido
: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev md0. What can I do? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:30:26PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-10-15 11:05:24, schrieb Adam Hardy: > > Is there a basis for the file name restrictions on ext3, i.e. can I say, > > well ext3 is based on a standard, so I'm going to restrict the file names > > on macs, otherwise they wo

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-10-15 11:05:24, schrieb Adam Hardy: > Is there a basis for the file name restrictions on ext3, i.e. can I say, > well ext3 is based on a standard, so I'm going to restrict the file names > on macs, otherwise they won't be backed up? There are none. You can even have a backslash in the F

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2008-Oct-15, at 6:05 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: I created a samba share on one of my debian boxes with a ext3 file system and unfortunately I can't write files with certain file names from Mac OSX. This disrupts the back-up process which takes about an hour every time to fail when I want to

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
Adam Hardy wrote: > After finding out all I could about Mac file systems and names, my > conclusion is that macs are pretty special, especially their file > systems. Funny thing is, the colon is a restricted character in Mac filesystems, too... the colon at least until OS X (and possibly still in t

RE: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Tammo Schuelke
. > -Original Message- > From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:37 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: List Debian User > Subject: Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions > > Tammo Schuelke on 15/10/08 11:15, wrote: &g

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Adam writes: > Is there a basis for the file name restrictions on ext3, i.e. can I say, > well ext3 is based on a standard, so I'm going to restrict the file names > on macs, otherwise they won't be backed up? You can use any printable character other than '/'. ':; is entirely legal and often use

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Aneurin Price
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Hardy: >> >> For instance, there is one file name like this: >> >> 2AE2EAEE-57AC-46D8-B619-C2167D4C6786:ABPerson.abcdp >> >> which has a colon in it that I guess is the problem. > > I am not sure either, but I'd bet o

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Hardy
Tammo Schuelke on 15/10/08 11:15, wrote: -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:05 PM To: List Debian User Subject: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions Hi, I created a samba share on one of my debian boxes with a

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Adam Hardy: > > For instance, there is one file name like this: > > 2AE2EAEE-57AC-46D8-B619-C2167D4C6786:ABPerson.abcdp > > which has a colon in it that I guess is the problem. I am not sure either, but I'd bet on that, too. I guess this is not even a problem with neither MacOS X or ext3 -- it

RE: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Tammo Schuelke
ROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:05 PM > To: List Debian User > Subject: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions > > Hi, > > I created a samba share on one of my debian boxes with a ext3 file system and > unfortunately I can't write files with certai

RE: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Tammo Schuelke
tober 15, 2008 12:05 PM > To: List Debian User > Subject: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions > > Hi, > > I created a samba share on one of my debian boxes with a ext3 file system and > unfortunately I can't write files with certain file names from Mac OSX. >

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Adam Hardy wrote: Hi, I created a samba share on one of my debian boxes with a ext3 file system and unfortunately I can't write files with certain file names from Mac OSX. This disrupts the back-up process which takes about an hour every time to fail when I want to try it out again. For i

RE: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Tammo Schuelke
ROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:05 PM > To: List Debian User > Subject: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions > > Hi, > > I created a samba share on one of my debian boxes with a ext3 file system and > unfortunately I can't write files with certai

ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi, I created a samba share on one of my debian boxes with a ext3 file system and unfortunately I can't write files with certain file names from Mac OSX. This disrupts the back-up process which takes about an hour every time to fail when I want to try it out again. For instance, there is on

Re: "Failed!" message received when EXT3 filesystem mounted

2007-03-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:34:47AM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > I have Etch installed on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. There are five > hda partitions which have the EXT3 file system mounted thereon. Hda1 is > a physical partition where /boot is mounted. The other four, hda5 > through hda8, are lo

"Failed!" message received when EXT3 filesystem mounted

2007-03-13 Thread Ken Heard
I have Etch installed on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. There are five hda partitions which have the EXT3 file system mounted thereon. Hda1 is a physical partition where /boot is mounted. The other four, hda5 through hda8, are logical partitions where / (root), /usr, /tmp and /home are mounted

Re: Urgent problem with ext3 filesystem!!!

2006-01-22 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:38:19 +0100 G-Point <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when i boot my pc, it stops on root filesystem check, because it says that a > file has "6 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 0 file(s)" > so i can't boot linux. There are six different parts in the file where it points t

Re: Urgent problem with ext3 filesystem!!!

2006-01-20 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:38:19PM +0100, G-Point wrote: >hello, >when i boot my pc, it stops on root filesystem check, because it says that >a file has "6 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 0 file(s)" >so i can't boot linux. >i don't want to delete that file, how can i solv

Urgent problem with ext3 filesystem!!!

2006-01-20 Thread G-Point
hello,when i boot my pc, it stops on root filesystem check, because it says that a file has "6 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 0 file(s)"so i can't boot linux.i don't want to delete that file, how can i solve my problem? copying that file to another partition?running fsck or ex2fsck?i tried

Re: ext3 filesystem: superblock not found

2005-12-05 Thread johannes
johannes wrote: I somehow broke the data partition of my server when preparing for backup. e2fsck can't find superblock, but finds 'bad magic number...' ---output of e2fsck: srv:/var/log# e2fsck /dev/rd/c0d0p3 e2fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... e2fs

ext3 filesystem: superblock not found

2005-12-02 Thread johannes
hysical Device 0:1 Online DAC960#0: Logical Drive 0 (/dev/rd/c0d0) Found DAC960#0: Logical Drive 0 (/dev/rd/c0d0) Online kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on rd/c0d0p1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Can't find ext3 filesy

Re: root ext3 filesystem being mounted as ext2

2003-11-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
>> EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_read_super: mounting >> ext3 filesystem as ext2 >> > I remember that i had the same problem when using ext3fs as a module and > no initrd. Right, I had the same problem and solved it the same way, by building ext3 support int

Re: root ext3 filesystem being mounted as ext2

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, Thanks for this. I am familiar with initrd images but never understood their purpose. Now I do :) This indeed was the problem: apparently the kernel did not have ext3 compiled into it nor did this particular system have an initrd to load the ext3 module before mounting the root file system.

Re: root ext3 filesystem being mounted as ext2

2003-11-25 Thread Alexander Rink
tem appears to be attempted to be mounted as ext3 but > then defers to ext2 with the following message: > > EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_read_super: mounting > ext3 filesystem as ext2 > > I've looked into this quite a bit both with trying diff

root ext3 filesystem being mounted as ext2

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Yeatman
sage: EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2 I've looked into this quite a bit both with trying different things with the computer and doing searches for the above message in Google. Neither have paid off. I'm getting desperat

Re: ext3 filesystem error

2002-12-24 Thread Jacob S .
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 20:11:44 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 the mental interface of > Jacob S. told: > > > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST) > > Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1 /boot > > >

Re: ext3 filesystem error

2002-12-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 the mental interface of Jacob S. told: > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST) > Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1 /boot > > and /dev/hda2 / > > /dev/hda3 is my swap space. > > > > When I edit /etc/fstab to set /dev/hda2

Re: ext3 filesystem error

2002-12-24 Thread Jacob S .
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST) Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1 /boot > and /dev/hda2 / > /dev/hda3 is my swap space. > > When I edit /etc/fstab to set /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda1 to ext3 instead > of ext2, I get the error: > kernel: ext3: No

ext3 filesystem error

2002-12-24 Thread Russ Cook
My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1 /boot and /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda3 is my swap space. When I edit /etc/fstab to set /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda1 to ext3 instead of ext2, I get the error: kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1) My file /etc/mtab shows /dev/hda2 mounted as ext3, but /d

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 07:22:00AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > David Roundy wrote: > >So make your normal ext2 filesystems, and then run tune2fs -j /dev/hda6 (or > >whatever device) to add a journal. > > That's it...? > I think it's great. > > BTW, are you sure that there's no more complicated thing

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-07 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Nope, thats it. Just run the tune2fs and change the fstab to ext3 or auto. Beautiful stuff aint it? On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 19:22, Oki DZ wrote: > David Roundy wrote: > > So make your normal ext2 filesystems, and then run tune2fs -j /dev/hda6 (or > > whatever device) to add a journal. > > Tha

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-07 Thread Oki DZ
David Roundy wrote: So make your normal ext2 filesystems, and then run tune2fs -j /dev/hda6 (or whatever device) to add a journal. That's it...? I think it's great. BTW, are you sure that there's no more complicated things? Oki

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-07 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:32:23PM -, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > Hi > Is it possible to have the ext3 filesystem with woody and if so how do i > go about installing it with the ext3 filesystem? Yeah, but you don't need to bother with it until after the installation is ov

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Charlie Grosvenor([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi > Is it possible to have the ext3 filesystem with woody and if so how do i > go about installing it with the ext3 filesystem? > Have you looked at /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/extra/ext3-mini-HOWTO.gz ? or /u

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-06 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 06 March 2002 11:11 am, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Mike Fedyk quotation: > > use the bf2.4 install disks. > > So there are now Woody install disks that support ext3? Nice. > > Craig That is disk # 3 of 8 for the woody Cd's. - -- Greg

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-06 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Osamu Aoki quotation: > No! You seem to have gone a lot of work to convert system by your self > but standard kernel-image is very impressive work too. Quite possibly, but at the time, I had no choice. Ext3 wasn't in the standard kernels when I converted my first system; we didn't even h

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:10:40PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Charlie Grosvenor quotation: > > > Is it possible to have the ext3 filesystem with woody and if so how do i > > go about installing it with the ext3 filesystem? > > First, install Woody with

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:32:23PM -, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > Hi > Is it possible to have the ext3 filesystem with woody and if so how do i > go about installing it with the ext3 filesystem? I initiated kind of long thread recently on this topic. Summary from it is included i

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-06 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Mike Fedyk quotation: > use the bf2.4 install disks. So there are now Woody install disks that support ext3? Nice. Craig pgpar58YIFWtj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-06 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Charlie Grosvenor quotation: > Is it possible to have the ext3 filesystem with woody and if so how do i > go about installing it with the ext3 filesystem? First, install Woody with ordinary ext2 partitions. Then upgrade to a recent 2.4 kernel (2.4.17 is probably best at the

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:32:23PM -, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > Hi > Is it possible to have the ext3 filesystem with woody and if so how do i > go about installing it with the ext3 filesystem? > use the bf2.4 install disks.

Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-06 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Hi Is it possible to have the ext3 filesystem with woody and if so how do i go about installing it with the ext3 filesystem? Thankyou Charlie

Re: ext3 filesystem

2001-08-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon Aug 27, 2001 um 01:01:35AM: > Will the file system mount in case it is corrupted ? To run e2fsck u should > first get the prompt at least in single user mode !!! Since when we convert > from ext2 to ext3 we also do tune2fs -c0 -i0 /dev/hdx. Thus at the star

Re: ext3 filesystem

2001-08-26 Thread hsejar
Eduard Bloch saw fit to inform me that: >#include >Rajesh Fowkar wrote on Sun Aug 26, 2001 um 10:10:35PM: > >> Is there a possibility of the journal file of ext3 filesystem gettign >> corrupted ? If yes. Are there any tools to recover from such situation ? > >Remo

Re: ext3 filesystem

2001-08-26 Thread Sean
0:35 + Rajesh Fowkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a possibility of the journal file of ext3 filesystem gettign > corrupted ? If yes. Are there any tools to recover from such situation ? > > Th

Re: ext3 filesystem

2001-08-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Rajesh Fowkar wrote on Sun Aug 26, 2001 um 10:10:35PM: > Is there a possibility of the journal file of ext3 filesystem gettign > corrupted ? If yes. Are there any tools to recover from such situation ? Remove the journal (man tune2fs), scan the filesystem (man e2fsck) and rebui

ext3 filesystem

2001-08-26 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, Is there a possibility of the journal file of ext3 filesystem gettign corrupted ? If yes. Are there any tools to recover from such situation ? Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar