[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] livecd-iso-to-disk Create an ext4 filesystem by default for home.img

Frederick Grose fgrose at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 00:43:39 UTC 2011


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Brian C. Lane <bcl at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 11:21:45PM -0500, Frederick Grose wrote:
> > The block sizes are 4096 bytes with -T and 1024 with -t.
> >
> > Which would be preferred?
> >
>
> Smaller blocks are probably better since we're normally going to be
> dealing with smaller filesystems.
>
> What I think I'll do is change it to mkfs.ext4 and let it use the
> defaults like -T describes.
>

Confirmed that
 mkfs.ext4 -F -j home.img

produces the same structure as
 mke2fs -F -j -t ext4 home.img

did in my tests described earlier.

     --Fred

>
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> Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA
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