filesystem

+2 TB Partitions and +16 TB Filesystems

To make partitions larger than 2TB, a normal DOS partition table will not work. We have to use a GPT partition table to support +2TB partitions. This is easily done with the parted tool. Below we label the /dev/sdb device as GPT and create one large partition (of type XFS in this case) which spans … [Read more…]

Optimering af ext2/ext3 filsystemer

Jeg fandt dette link , der beskriver hvordan man slår directory indexing til. Denne ext2/ext3 fs feature er normalt ikke slået til, med mindre du selv angav det, da du oprettede dit filsystem. Du kan nemt checke om dir_index er slået til ved at skrive tune2fs -l /dev/disk | grep features