How to find out the parameters of an ext3 filesystem

Dan Track dan.track at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 15:44:04 UTC 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 23:18 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Dan Track wrote:
>> > Great thanks. Can I ask one more question. I'm trying to put all the
>> > information in the following website:
>> > http://busybox.net/~aldot/mkfs_stride.html
>> >
>> > and it is asking me for the following: "number of filesystem blocks (in KiB)"
>> >
>> How does this question relate to Fedora?
>>
>> Isn't this something related to busybox that maybe you should be asking
>> about to that community?
>
> It's nothing to do with busybox (despite the hostname). If anything a
> better place for the question would be the ext3-users[1] or
> linux-raid[2] mailing lists (as it's a question about optimising ext3
> for use on Linux software RAID devices).
>
> A bit of searching around will probably find a few related discussions
> in the past also.
>
> Regards,
> Bryn.

Hi,

On another note I see that stripe-width option in mkfs.ext3 is
missing. Any reasons why that may be the case?

Thanks
Dan




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