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Questions tagged [ext4]

The ext4 or fourth extended filesystem is a journaling file system for linux/*nix developed as the successor to ext3.

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Can I safely store mac and windows backups on an ext4 filesystem?

I want to store time machine backups on a storage server running ubuntu server with an ext4 filesystem. If I only ever interact with the server over the network, will I be able to safely recover this mac backup? Can I safely store my windows…
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Can Mac OS X extended attributes be stored across NFS to a Linux ext4 filesystem?

MacOSX filesystems use extended attributes (e.g. "com.apple.quarantine", "com.apple.FinderInfo"): $ ls -l@ .DS_Store -rw-r--r--@ 1 gareth staff 18436 2 Nov 10:35 .DS_Store com.apple.FinderInfo 32 Can these extended attributes be…
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Why should I switch to ext4 when upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10?

I'm going to upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10 in a near future and wanted to know if I should migrate my existing ext3 partitions to ext4 during the process and, if yes, why?
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Why does /sys/fs/ext4/vda1 exist when /dev/vda1 is ext3?

I'm trying to tune my filesystem for some operations I have to do involving huge numbers of files. Then I got confused about what FS I'm even using. tune2fs -l /dev/vda1 contains: Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 So that means it's either ext2,…
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Creating the exact size FS on xfs

I got a few hundred folders that I need to migrate to a new server. I've been asked to create a xfs FS for each individual folder. Ran a du so I know the exact size of each folder and specified block size of 1G. How do I calculate what size do I…
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Alternative to ReiserFS for storing many small files in one block?

I know that ReiserFS is able to store multiple small files in a single block, and at one time was recommended for use with s3backer because of that feature, as fewer blocks to store on S3 mean lower costs. I'm looking at using s3backer in a…
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ddrescue -- which files are in error locations?

I had a HDD crash and had to use ddrescue to restore it. It took a month, but it finally finished today. However, there were three errors that it could not read. Is there a way to find out which files were there (if any)? The filesystem is ext4.
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XFS as default filesystem in the enterprise

After reading up on the whole data=ordered fiasco that EXT4 went through and how much support there was on it accommodating "broken" applications, I was surprised that a filesystem that is not guaranteed to write the data before the metadata was…
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Warning :mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended

Linux server will hang and when I restart it will take around 2 hours to come up and resume normal operations. I checked the system log files and found mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended I found some solution here, which says…
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impossible creating a ext4 fs with block size of 1024

Im triying to build up a new server for a service that saves the data on very small files of max 1 kb on the fs. The problem its, now we are using a block size of 4 kb and we are wasting a lot of space, so we are planning to change it to a new fs of…
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Loss of data when trying to fix ext4 "group descriptors corrupted!"

When I try to mount an existing disk, I get the message sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 /data mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is…
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How to add partition table to existing EXT4 filesystem

I have software RAID6 on 8x3TB disks (18TB), there is filesystem od device /dev/md1, but EXT4 can`t be bigger than 16TB so there is 2TB of free space. I would like to use this space. My first idea was to move filesystem a little bit from the…
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ext4 root filesystem corruption under XenServer 6.2 DomU

We're with a problem with filesystem corruption in guest machines in a XenServer 6.2 It only happens in Linux Machines. Randomly the filesystem remounts as read-only and them corruption starts on the root filesystem. Here is some info from…
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SMB Share (samba) Centos 6 Mounted hard drive Permission Denied

I have set up a SMB share on Centos for all users. This share is available and working correctly. Guide followed -> CentOS 6.4 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend Procedure: For diagnostic purposes I have Disabled SELINUX and iptables…
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Linux: File is not shown in ls but cannot be touched with message "File exists"

I can remember creating this file but it disapeard. But not completely: root@XXX:/etc/vz/conf# ls -al total 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root www-data 0 Okt 1 16:04 . drwxr-x--- 2 root www-data 0 Okt 1 16:04 .. root@XXX:/etc/vz/conf# touch 1030.conf touch:…
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