Ubuntu :: Filesystem Support / Upgrading To 10.04
Apr 16, 2010
I am currently running Kubuntu 9.1, quite happily (triple booting macbook with snow leopard and Windows 7). I would like to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04, but I have a few questions first. Correct me if I am wrong, but Kubuntu is just Ubuntu with the K Desktop Environment, no? So if I were to wipe my partition and install Ubuntu 10.04, I could then install the K Desktop Environment and have Kubuntu 10.04? (sudo apt-get install)
I have been trying to find a way to "see" my kubuntu partition while booted into either mac osx or windows. My kubuntu is currently using the ext4 filesystem though, and there are no drivers to make this work... Is it possible to install Kubuntu onto a filesystem other than ext2/3/4? Ideally I would like to install it onto NTFS, but i know in previous distros (6.1, 7.1) this was not possible. FAT 32 would work for me too,as my partition is only 15gb. Or does anyone know of any drivers for ext4 for mac and windows?
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Jun 11, 2009
Is that possible, I mean when I upgrade F10 to F11 with yum upgrade is there a way to 'upgrade' the filesystem to ext4 for example (with the exception of boot partition)? Or I have to reinstall fedora like new?
While changing the filesystem can I do it by parts? what I mean is for example: I have 2 partitions like '/' and '/home' with ext3, so I backup data in '/home', change '/' to ext4 then mv files from '/home' to '/' and change '/home' to ext4 and finally mv those files from '/' to '/home'. Is that possible?
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Feb 17, 2011
about 2 weeks post-install, I find that my new debian etch machine has limited support for different filesystems. In the past, I've always seen support for riesers, xfs, ntfs, fat32, of course ext2/3,. I was trying to mount and read an old windows ntfs HDD, and there were problems, so I went to:
cat /proc/filesystems (see below).
Is there any way to get back support for other filesystems on my kernel, or do I need another kernel, or do i need to compile a new kernel? Maybe just install the system over again? (if I do, how do I select for filesystem support)...
blaster:~# cat /proc/filesystems
nodevsysfs
nodevrootfs
nodevbdev
nodevproc
nodevcgroup
nodevcpuset
nodevdebugfs
nodevsecurityfs
nodevsockfs
nodevpipefs
nodevanon_inodefs
nodevtmpfs
nodevinotifyfs
nodevdevpts
nodevramfs
nodevhugetlbfs
nodevmqueue
nodevusbfs
ext3
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Mar 26, 2010
I am running Ubuntu 9.04 on a Dell Optiplex SX280 Yesterday the system locked up, and when I rebooted I got stuff like this:
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[ 126.466459] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[ 126.466464] ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x24
[ 126.466471] ata3.00: cmd 25/00:20:bf:a2:21/00:01:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 147456 in
[ 126.466473] res 51/40:41:00:a3:21/40:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
[ 126.466476] ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[Code]...
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Sep 27, 2010
We are currently running Redhat 5.4 64Bit (Build 2.6.18-164.e15) however having issues with tar files that are greater than 2TB in size.
We have been told that upgrading the kernel to support the ext4 file system (supported in version 5.5?) and mounting the current 10TB nas share as an ext 4 file system may solve our over 2TB file size issues. Are their limitations within the ext3 file system that cause issues to files greater than 2TB and if this is the case Do we have to update the kernel (complete rebuild), or can we load a package on the redhat box to support the ext 4 file system Where do we get the upgrade/package. I have logged onto the redhat site and can not find kernel updates but can find the full installation packages. We are not connected directly to the internet and do not have access to the update repository
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May 18, 2011
I am very new to linux, and I have a question regarding the filesystem check (fsck). The power recently went out and when I tried to restart linux the following error appears:
*/dev/sda1 contains file system w/errors, check forced it then goes on to say..
*An error occured during the file system check. Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue) I wasn't sure what to do, but checked some other online forums and they suggested running fsck manually - so I typed in the root password - and used the command, "fsck -A -V ; echo == $? ==" it then gave the following message
*WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage
*Would you like to continue (y/n)
Again, I wasn't sure what to do so i just checked no. I then manually turned off the computer and was prompted at the beginning to press Alt-3. I was brought to another screen and it informed me one of the drives was degraded and suggested rebuilding the array. I tried doing this, but it still brings me back to the original error of, "/dev/sda1 contains file system w/errors, check forced," and the process continues.
Also, when I tried to rebuild the array, I didn't backup any of the data on our home directory before doing this (which was probably a big mistake). After being prompted to type the root password, I was able to give the ls command and look at all the directories...the home directory where our data was stored was empty and I am afraid I may have lost some information. Is there a possibility that data was lost when I was trying to rebuild using the old drives?
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Oct 28, 2009
i have recently bought a system which has intel atom and my Lan card hasn't been installed on the system, i am using centos 5.2, i have read in some articles that Centos 5.4 directly support this LAN Card,so will upgrading the kernel for the Operating system help, or i have to download the whole iso for 5.4 and install it over the existing if upgrading the kernel will help which file i need to download to upgrade the kernel and where can i download that file.
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Jul 9, 2010
I have a following problem: Recently my drive with Ubuntu 9.4 has mysteriously stopped working, i.e. when I switch the computer on it informs me that GRUB didn't find the filesystem. Well, I suppose it happens.
First, I though it was due to the drive dying, but I popped it in an external enclosure and HDTune told me the drive was fine. Wanting to recover the files on the drive before reinstalling I first tried to mount it in said external enclosure under Windows (I have Win Ext2 driver installed which used to work just fine). This time, however, drive gets assigned a letter but upon opening it Windows popped up an error saying that the drive was not formatted and whether I would like to format it then.
Unfazed by this streak of failures I tried to mount it under Linux but, alas, to no avail. I might have tried every single -t operator under mount command but it still won't budge and let me mount.
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Mar 27, 2010
When I try to boot to OpenSUSE I get the following error during boot-up: unknown filesystem type 'reiserfs' could not mount root filesystem - exiting to /bin/sh$
This only started happening quite recently - before this I could boot to Linux quite happily.
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Mar 11, 2011
I am trying to mount a file image, like this
mount -o loop /tmp/apps.img /media/apps
But I get the following:
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
I try ext3:
mount -o loop /tmp/apps.img /media/apps -t ext3
dmesg says:
error: can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop6.
I've also tried ext2, vfat etc. How can I detect the filesystem type of apps.img?
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Mar 24, 2010
I've had a look at some similar threads but as I'm very new to linux they're already a bit technical for me. Sorry, this calls for someone with patience. I gather from other threads that disconnecting an external drive without unmounting is a no-no, and this seems to be the likely cause. Now the disk is read only and I'm unable to change any settings through the usual control panel on ubuntu. I'm just not familiar with the terminal instructions. I tried to cut and past a few command lines from other threads but I got some warnings that proceding could damage data. Like this one: WARNING! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.
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Sep 29, 2010
i am trying to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 from 8.04, and am getting this warning:"Upgrading may reduce desktop effects, and performance in games and other graphically intensive programs.This computer is currently using the AMD 'fglrx' graphics driver. No version of this driver is available that works with your hardware in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.Do you want to continue?"should i continue? i have no idea what a 'fglrx graphics driver' is
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Apr 14, 2010
I have a HP laptop which can support 1600x900. But after I install ubuntu 9.10 on it, it can only support up to 1280x700. My laptop has a Nvidia graphics card. And i am using GNOME as my desktop environment.
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Jul 10, 2011
I'm trying to find out when QME2572 (Qlogic) card became support by the kernel. We have a RHEL 5.1 system that is moving to new hardware, however the kernel at this release doesn't support the new hardware, due to the Qlogic card change. I tired the Redhat KB and Bugzilla. Is there a Kernel change list etc I can search. Never really played around with the kernel too much so I'm just after some pointers for looking up this information. Offically its not supported until Redhat 5.3, I'm trying trying to research kernel info so I can tell the customer they have to upgrade.
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Aug 25, 2010
I'm looking to dual-boot Windows 7 and Debian 6 upon its release on my sister's laptop. I want to share a partition between the two of them so that /home points to this directory and the Windows equivalent also points to it (C:Users).
Anyway, I've heard good and bad things about the NTFSMount driver (I think it's NTFS-3G now) and the NTFSprogs project and so I am not so certain what I should believe. I do know that NTFS has relatively high overhead, though I do not recall the source of this assertion, so I am considering the use of EXFAT. An open source EXFAT project is hosted on Google Code at [url] and it utilizes the kernel module FUSE.
I'm quite certain that I've got everything covered on the Windows side -- that is, I know that both NTFS and EXFAT will be suitable filesystems for my required usage.
My issue is that I'm curious which will have superior performance and stability in Debian. I planned on building the package from source and mounting the device in my FSTAB but I have also found a PPA for Ubuntu on Launchpad at [url] that I could borrow the debian/rules from and make a .deb package from.
What do you guys think? Should I go at it with the EXFAT or NTFS partitioning? Is NTFS-3G actually fairly supported at this point? Or perhaps should I consider some alternate method?
I have also considered that the only files she will be sharing are those of music, videos, and pictures so it could be better to just link /home/xxxx/Pictures (Music and Videos, too) to the new partition instead of all of /home.
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May 11, 2011
I would like to know if it is possibile to have support for wi-fi midi support in linux.
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Sep 1, 2009
I need a textbrowser with Javascript Support. I have compiled the elinks stable 0.11x and the unstable 0.12x version mit JavaScript Support (js moz dev). Both browsers can be started and showed websites normaly. But no javascript, even simple tests like [URL] failed. I started elink with ./elink and typed then the url.
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Feb 8, 2010
I can't restart ubuntu, because of an error during filecheck. Something like:
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usplash failed
usplash could not set to 1152x864
Mountall failed
Filesystem could not be mounted
Do a manual fsck to repair error When I run fsck, it sees some multiply-nodes, when I try to repair them, it says:
Code:
Fail: Multiply-nodes allready copied or repaired After fsck is done, I have to reboot. And the cycle repeats.
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Apr 2, 2010
I currently dual boot one of my systems with Windows XP and fedora 12After having problems with fedora 12 where the wireless wouldn't work yet again when I upgraded, I just want to wipe it completely and replace it with Ubuntu.
After I have doing some reading I noticed that Ubuntu doesn't use the RAW filesystem format and EXT4 filesystem is new so as I manually need to format my disk for Ubuntu I have one question. As the other has been answered.Do I need reformat my GRUB partition as well. If, so what format should that be in?
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Jun 24, 2010
I was happily browsing my new Linux Ubuntu Distribution, and a warning message popped up stating that there's about 145 megs in FIle System. how to solve this problem other than removing files?
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Dec 11, 2010
Well I did something really stupid:sudo chmod 700 -R /Why? because it's late and I'm tired and somehow thought it was only on my current dir...Is this somehow fixable? I don't get my usual loginscreen so I guess through an tty?
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Mar 19, 2011
I have just got an SSD (Kingston SSDNow 100v 64Gib)It supports TRIM, and is definitely one of the better ones available.I am asserting here that the "limited number of writes" problem is a myth, so I'm not looking for an answer to that.My question is, what filesystem will help me get the best performance out of my SSD? Bear in mind SSDs excel at random access time, but sequential file performance is meh
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Jul 29, 2011
I have a collection of ELF executables that I am trying to run from a FAT filesystem. How can I do this without modifying the OS?p.s. I am running 11.04
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May 30, 2011
I'm having some trouble with my Ubuntu 10.04. It had been working normally, and now my startup isn't occurring normally. The bootloader shows my Windows install and two different revisions of Ubuntu. Upon letting it load Ubuntu, however, it goes to BusyBox v1.13.3 and says "built in shell (ash)" and presents me with a functioning command line.
I'm comfortable with working on the command line, but does anyone know where to start with this?
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Apr 18, 2011
When I want to mount an iso file with "-o loop" I get an error that need the filesystem type. How can I fix that?
Code:
mahmood@pc:disk$ sudo mount -o loop ubuntu10.10_64.iso /mnt
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
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Jan 8, 2010
Something very strange happened. Firefox was acting a little strange, so I decided to restart my system. When ubuntu started to boot it showed an error that said filesystem failed to mount. It gave me an "emergency" command line and told me ctrl-D would retry the mount. Why would this happen? I haven't modified any system files for a very long time. It told me to run fsck (I think thats what it was) and that seemed to fix the problem. Just curious as to what could have happened. Anyone else have this problem? Anything I should try to fix so this won't happen in the future?
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Jan 11, 2010
I was trying to backup everything, format/overwrite an partition to start with a fresh start after some annoying issues with my previous installation.
I had a perfectly fine working partition table and i chose to format partition
#1 (Ext4) partition (~50gb)
from the installation tool from the ubuntu live cd.
I had more partitions
#2 was ~5gbits swap
#3 was some unencrypted data(~20gb) (I think it was Ext3)
#4 was encrypted data (~150gb) (Ext4)
#5 unpartitioned data (~100gb)
So while doing this the installation failed somehow during the format of the disks, I tried testdisk but it couldn't locate the HDD nor any other program. When I look at my /dev it says this (from live cd):
root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# fdisk -l
root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu#
Mount says:
root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# mount
aufs on / type aufs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
/dev/sr0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (rw) .....
/dev/sdxx doesn't even exist and this also doesn't seem to work:
root@ubuntu:/dev# ls -al | grep h
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3240 2010-01-12 00:16 char
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 228 2010-01-12 00:14 hpet
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 56 2010-01-12 00:14 network_throughput
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 140 2010-01-12 00:32 shm
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 231 2010-01-12 00:14 snapshot
I nearly have the idea there is no hdd in my pc while I am very sure it was here some hours ago. I didn't made it fall on something hard while running or something so all inside of the box should be just fine. I can't reach my keepassx file (stored inside the encrypted part) so I also can't log onto my workspace or anything, it is quite crippling currently.
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Jan 20, 2010
GRUB says my filesystem is damaged and it gives me a "grub rescue>" prompt.
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Feb 4, 2010
I am having trouble with beagle. I havent used it for a while (probably since the upgrade to karmic). I have found now that it does not provide any results for any of my files, specifically my pdf files (I am doing a PhD and it is easier to search for journal articles by the author/title than it is to find them on the file system with 100s of files all over the place, I wish I was more organised!).
Do I need to install a sepparate backend to index pdfs?
I had a look in the log files and for all my pdfs (and some others) I get something like this:
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20100202 11:10:42.8736 15579 Beagle DEBUG: Delaying add of file:///home/philip/Desktop/PBR Stuff/Lee 1986.pdf until FSQ comes across it
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Feb 5, 2010
I recently bought a Western Digital 640GB external USB hard drive. It was ****-house, had all these extra security features and windows programs hard coded onto a non-writable flash chip that can't be deleted. So I returned the WD and got a Seagate 500GB external hard-drive. Perfect. I was then faced with the perennial problem of choosing a filesystem. Preferably one that works well in Linux, but still portable. FAT32 isn't much good for anything these days, with size limits and all. NTFS is proprietary and unreadable on Mac OSX. Compatibility problems exist for most other proprietary filesystems, and a whole bunch of the free ones as well.
In the end I chose ext3. "ext3?" I hear you say - you might be surprised. Here are my reasons: For a start, ext3 is certainly the most well supported filesystem in Linux. That goes without saying. Secondly, and not everyone knows this: there exists open source ext2/3 drivers for both Windows and Mac. Ext3 is, in fact, just as portable as NTFS - and it is open source (read: free from bull-shite). My setup is as follows:One 499GB partition formatted as EXT3 One 1GB partition formatted as FAT32, containing drivers:MacFUSE + fuse-ext2 for Mac OSX, and Ex2Fsd for Windows.
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