Looking for suggestions as to which filesystem to go with. I currently use gfs2 on hosts with 3.4tb useable. I understand gfs2 is being left behind but xfs and ext4 are not quite certified completely on CentOS 5.2. I have email storage hosts that have a decent i/o requirement and 12TB usable after... (12 Replies)
Gidday,
Are you using ext4 for production system? Or is it better to opt for a more
conservative strategy, like ext3 for instance?
What are your experiences?
Thanks in advance,
Loïc. (3 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to ask about actions taken if any regarding having a few bad sector (67 bad sector according to DISK UTILITY) on my root ext partition except from buying a new HD and cloning it since my laptop is a 1 year old.
Question:
About clonzilla before this bad sector happens i used... (5 Replies)
Hi there,
I have a problem with Unix kernel programming.
I have to write a program who should output the whole information the EXT4 extents contain. I have found many tutorial and information about how the EXT4 filesystem is working. Also There ar many information about the EXT4 structure but I... (1 Reply)
Hello!
I am in a weird problem of not able to set quota on an ext4 file system. I have setup a logical volume on which this ext4 filesystem resides. It's going to be used by an application for dumping data. But we want to setup quota so that it does not consume all the free space of the lv. The... (5 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I am trying to mount an ext4 filesystem which I created from Ubuntu. But mount command fails saying:
prakhar@Solaris:~$ sudo mount /dev/dsk/c10t0d0p1 /mnt
Password:
mount: /dev/dsk/c10t0d0p1 is not this fstype
And I also tried this:
prakhar@Solaris:~$ fstyp... (6 Replies)
Hi
I have a shell script to copy a pattern of files from Linux to Windows Filesystem.
When i execute the below command
cp -av TOUT_05-02-13* Windows/Folder
`TOUT_05-02-13-19:02:37.tar.gz' -> `Windows/Folder/SYSOUT_05-02-13-19:02:37.tar.gz'
cp: cannot create regular file... (5 Replies)
I'm trying to understand the difference between o_direct flag of open system call and dax (direct access) with ext4 filesystem.
According to my understanding both bypass page cache.
But I'm still unclear about the crucial difference between these 2 techniques. If there is a huge difference... (1 Reply)
Hello guys,
I would like to ask you kindly if you don't know some quick and safe method how to shrink ext4 filesystem and reduce the size of a Logical Volume in Linux, please?
Thank you very much. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: los_bandidos
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
partclone.btrfs
partclone.extfs(8) System Manager's Manual partclone.extfs(8)NAME
partclone.extfs - The utility for clone and restore an etx2/ext3 partition.
SYNOPSIS
partclone.extfs [options]... [MODE] [SOURCE FILE] [OUTPUT FILE]
DESCRIPTION
partclone.extfs is a part of Partclone project for ext2/3 file system. Partclone is a project like the well-known backup utility "Parti-
tion Image" a.k.a partimage. Partclone provide utilities to back up used blocks and design for higher compatibility of the file system
using supported library like e2fslibs.
OPTIONS -o, --output FILE
Output FILE
-O --overwrite FILE
Output FILE, overwriting if exists
-s, --source FILE
Source FILE
-L, --logfile FILE
Log FILE
-c, --clone
Save to the special image format
-r, --restore
Restore from the special image format
-b, --dev-to-dev
Local device to device copy mode
-D, --domain
Create GNU Ddrescue domain log file from source device
--offset_domain=X
Add X (in bytes) to all positions reported in the domain log file
-R, --rescue
Continue after disk read errors
-dX, --debug=X
Set the debug level to X = [0|1|2]
-C, --no_check
Don't check device size and free space
-X, --dialog
Output message as Dialog Format
-I, --ignore_fschk
Ignore filesystem check
--ignore_crc
Ignore crc check error
-F, --force
Force progress
-f, --UI-fresh
Fresh times of progress
-q, --quiet
quiet mode, no progress update
-v, --version
Display partclone version
-h, --help
Display this help
Examples:
clone /dev/hda1 to hda1.img and display debug information.
partclone.extfs -c -d -s /dev/hda1 -o hda1.img
restore /dev/hda1 from hda1.img and display debug information.
partclone.extfs -r -d -s hda1.img -o /dev/hda1
restore image from clonezilla(split, gzip,) with stdin source
cat sda1.ext3-ptcl-img.gz.a* > gunzip -c | partclone.ext3 -d -r -s - -o /dev/sda1
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <thomas@nchc.org.tw>
SUPPORT
You can get support at http://partclone.org
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Tsai <thomas@nchc.org.tw>
partclone 0.2.48 Nov 2007 partclone.extfs(8)