Re: [Cooker] Formating partition

1999-11-10 Thread Thierry Vignaud 

Sylvain Vignaud wrote:
 
 In older Mandrake, ext2 partitions were formated with default option.
 Should it still be the case, the formating options may be changed with
 enabling Superblock and reducing the number of inode.
 
 For exemple I have one 1Go partition formated during an installation,
 and a 2Go partition reformated with the above options. Running
 fsck.ext2) is FAR faster on the 2Go partition (10-20s maybe) than on the
 1Go standard-formated partition.

already did by default by last mke2fs !!

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RE: [Cooker] Formating partition

1999-11-10 Thread Thomas M. Beaudry 

How about making it an option in the Expert install?

 -Original Message-
 
 Sylvain Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  In older Mandrake, ext2 partitions were formated with default option.
  Should it still be the case, the formating options may be changed with
  enabling Superblock 
 
 you mean sparse superblock? the default option is ok
 
  and reducing the number of inode.
  
 
 
 
 some numbers:
 
 (root@kenobi)[/]-# for i in $(perl -ane 'print "$F[3]\n" if 
 /^\s/' /proc/partitions); do /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/$i 2/dev/null | 
 grep -e "Inode count" -e "^Free inodes:"; done
 Inode count:  40320
 Free inodes:  36825
 Inode count:  1904640
 Free inodes:  1522509
 Inode count:  223232
 Free inodes:  164544
 Inode count:  2000
 Free inodes:  1970
 Inode count:  185088
 Free inodes:  185077
 Inode count:  2072640
 Free inodes:  2031702
 
 pixel@leia:/for i in $(perl -ane 'print "$F[3]\n" if /^\s/' 
 /proc/partitions); do /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/$i 2/dev/null | grep 
 -e "Inode count" -e "^Free inodes:"; done
 Inode count:  26104
 Free inodes:  18422
 Inode count:  128520
 Free inodes:  98794
 Inode count:  127744
 Free inodes:  86967
 Inode count:  97536
 Free inodes:  96061
 Inode count:  155040
 Free inodes:  154260
 Inode count:  359744
 Free inodes:  359644
 
 using this number, we can say reducing by half the number of 
 inodes is safe. Or
 am i missing something?

Re: [Cooker] Formating partition

1999-11-10 Thread Pixel 

"Thomas M. Beaudry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 How about making it an option in the Expert install?
 

planned to add a dialog box asking the different available options. Alas...
wondering if i'll find the time ;-)