http://linuxexchange.org/tags/ext4/?type=rssquestions tagged <span class="tag">ext4</span>enThu, 01 Jul 2010 17:28:20 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/966/ext3-part-mounted-as-swap-can-i-recover<p>During mitigating a recent hardware failure (using another drive to boot from while waiting for the bad one to be fixed/replaced under warranty) I caused some self-inflicted damage.</p> <p>By mistake I reformatted(?) an ext3 partition to be used as swap because I thought that the partition has no useful data. I was wrong and now (after the failed drive is back) I realized that I was wrong...</p> <p>I have 4G memory and the partition was 4G also. I suspect that I did not run out of memory and needed the swap really. I was using a debian install CD and I do not recall that I asked for the partition to be cleared explicitly.</p> <p>What are my chances of recovering the contents of this partition? Any tool you can recommend?</p> <p>(The tags are not the best I am not allowed to create new ones: ext3 swap data-recovery).</p> <p>Thanks!</p>MatyasThu, 01 Jul 2010 17:28:20 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/966/ext3-part-mounted-as-swap-can-i-recoverfilesystemext4http://linuxexchange.org/questions/652/convert-ntfs-partition-to-ext-with-data<p>I currently have an NTFS partition on my hard disk, a relic from dual boot days with Windows, that contains a very large quantity of data ... call it my "Stuff" partition ;).</p> <p>The problem is that I would prefer to have this partition formatted to ext4, but have no where to move the existing data to. Is there anyway that I can convert the drive to ext4 without losing all that data or would I need to transfer it all to a secondary storage device/partition and then just reformat?</p>GarethWed, 19 May 2010 10:32:48 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/652/convert-ntfs-partition-to-ext-with-datantfsext4format