Do serious fs errors on an ext3 partition necessarily mean the HDD has bad sectors and is dying? If so it'll be the second drive to die this way. It's detecting errors on boot after an unclean ...

How do I extend my ext3 filesystem under RedHat 7.2? I'm having a hard time trying to find some good information on the correct app to use for this. I've read on ext2resize, resize2fs, and e2fsck, but ...

Linux supports a wide variety of filesystems. While it is true that the Linux VFS layer treats all filesystems equally, the ext3 filesystem is certainly the first among equals. Ext3 is the default ...

You won't normally see many problems with your server's file system, but occasionally things go wrong and it will be damaged. In this article, you'll learn how to access a damaged ext3 file system. If ...

The extended filesystem, otherwise known as ext, has been a fundamental part of Linux since before the 1.0 release in 1994. Currently the filesystem is on its fourth major revision, in use since its ...

As described in this article, patches which add extents and 48-bit capability to the ext3 filesystem have been circulated for wider review. Everybody seems to agree that these changes are good and ...

Mac OS X supports a handful of common file systems—HFS+, FAT32, and exFAT, with read-only support for NTFS. It can do this because the file systems are supported by the OS X kernel. Formats such as ...

The extended filesystem, otherwise known as ext, has been a fundamental part of Linux since before the 1.0 release in 1994. Currently the filesystem is on its fourth major revision, in use since its ...

As a comparison, I ran my test script against a set of standard filesystems in the Linux kernel that most users will be familiar with. As well as being of general interest, it also gives a good range ...