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

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mkfs.ext4 command not available in fedora 8

Is ext4 file system supported on fedora 8? If yes, then how do i enable it? I am unable to see format command for ext4. I can see only mkfs.ext3 and mkfs.ext2.
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EXT4 Single Larger Volume or Many Smaller Volumes

My question is regarding the file system performance of EXT4 volumes relative to size. We have a NAS running any arbitrary Linux platform. The NAS has (12) 4TB disks in a hardware RAID 6 with LVM resulting in approximately 40 TB of usable storage.…
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Is my default File System ext4

By running df -hT that shows mounted file systems, how can I know if my default FS is ext4? Also as mentioned by one of the MongoDB engineers in this video (@1:13) from M202: MONGODB ADVANCED DEPLOYMENT AND OPERATIONS (excellent class btw), one…
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LVM on disk with no partition table. How to reallocate free space with fdisk?

I shrank an LVM in half using these commands: e2fsck -f /dev/VG/LV resize2fs /dev/VG/LV 5G lvreduce -L 5G /dev/VG/LV Inspecting the physical volume yields this: --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sdb VG Name VG …
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Resizing a software RAID remotely, no LVM, / partition

I have a server that has a software RAID without LVM. That is only mdadm. There are the partitions /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 which form /dev/md2. There is also a lot of space after both /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 (almost 2TB) What I want to do is resize…
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Linux filesystem ext4 fragmentation

I have a question about the filesystem ext4 and disk fragmentation: Does ext4 place files in the same directory near or next to each other on the disk? And if so how is it fragmented, for example is filename important? I ask this because we've a…
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Replacing files with symlinks takes more space - Fedora19 EXT4

Background: We are using PHP CacheLite. In order to have a human readable path to cache files cache_{hash}_{hash}, there is a symbolic link that is more descriptive of the cache contents. We deployed a new server and rather than warming cache via…
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existing files are "invisible" to some applications

I have a problem with accessing files on an ext4 file system mounted as type NFS on a Linux server running CENTOS 6.5. I know the files exist on this file system because I can see them when I explicitly call them (e.g. with ls, awk, or cat), but…
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How do I allow users to add/modify files in a directory but not change the directory - Linux

How can I modify a directory so that it is owned by a group and users in that group can add and delete files and create sub directories but are unable to change the permissions on the parent directory? For example I would like any use in the 'users'…
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fsck ext4 inode error

Today while I was booting I got an error in an ext4 partition with some inodes. I just entered the root password and run fsck manually but I am a bit worried. fsck warned many times about some errors with inodes and asked me if I wanted to clear…
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Why is file rewrite slower?

on Linux, using various benchmark tools (bonnie++, iozone, etc) on ext4 (but i guess it's the same on other FS), rewrite is always slower than write to new files. For example, using bonnie++, with 24GB files (host with 12GB), block write is 167MB/s…
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ext4 production ready on kernel 2.6.32 (debian6)?

I've to maintain a production system on debian6 (kernel version 2.6.32). I'd like to use ext4 on a ssd disk (and generally hope to improve performance upgrading from ext3). I can't find any reference about the ext4 state on that…
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Errors when repairing ext4 filesystem

I just tried to boot from live CD and checked my file system using fsck,fsck.ext4, no errors was reported/fixed (i.e. says file system is clean), yet when I'm inside of system it tells me something else: [alexus@XXXXXXXX Desktop]$ sudo fsck.ext4 -n…
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remount / move root folder to another partition on centos

We have an EC2/CentOS6 instance with "/" mounted to an EXT4 partition, and now another bigger sized hard disk formatted in XFS attached to the system. Since the former partition for "/" is insufficient in space and no LVM setup, what's the steps…
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How can I deal with a directory on an ext4 volume that has so many files ls won't work?

I setup a motion detection software on linux and in the process created a directory with so many jpg files in it that running "ls mydirectory" just hangs. How can I split the content into several subdirectories when I can't even get a listing of…
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