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Are the links between the inode and data blocks of a file removed when...

Suppose there is only one hard link to a file. When rm the hard link, the inode and data blocks of the file will be marked as unused. But are the links from the inode to the data blocks of the file...

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Any way to help “visualize” the superblock, filesystem, group descriptors, etc

I’ve been reading a lot about filesystems, trying to learn all I can in depth, but I’m having trouble really visualizing some of it, especially when it comes to things like the superblock, group...

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Can I create a file on ext4 with a depth > 1 for testing purposes?

In order to test an analysis tool, I need a file where the depth (eh.eh_depth) is greater than 1. I’ve tried a couple of things: A large file (1GiB) Creating hundreds of smaller files (1MiB), deleting...

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CYM 13: (again) I only see ext4 sdcard as root

I’m trying Cyanogenmod 13 (Android 6.0.1) in a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.4 pro (mondrianwifi). I have an external SD card formatted as ext4. The system mounts it quite weirdly as:...

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Formatting an sdcard with mkfs hangs indefinitely

I am trying to format an sdcard following this guide. I am able to successfully create the partition table, but attempting to format the Linux partition with mkfs yields the following output: mke2fs...

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Recover lost ntfs partition?

I made a live USB of ubuntu to install it on my hp pavilion running win 10. Was planning to do dual boot, but accidentally reformatted my main ntfs partition into an ext4. Is there any way I can...

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Filesystem errors when restoring many files

I had an external hard drive that I mounted internally. It came formatted with NTFS, and I wanted to move to ext4. So I copied everything I wanted to keep onto other drives, created a brand new...

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Does Debian use GB or GiB for it's partition manager during installation?

I’d like to create a 5GB (1000) as one partition during the install of Debian. However, I’m not sure if if the partition manager uses Gib or GB. The version of Debian to be installed is 8.4 using the...

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Ext4 corrupted and unrecoverable after LVM resizing + power failure

I have a completely standard, single hard drive Fedora 23 desktop. The dual-boot installer set up the Linux partition as LVM, with root, swap and home logical volumes; root and home were both ext4....

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External USB drive fsck fails on boot

Yesterday I tried setting the fsck flag on fstab to 2 for the external USB HDD I use in my Raspberry Pi, so that it would be checked on boot, like: proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/mmcblk0p5 /boot...

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