From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S71V8-0007ST-Bb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:25:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3302E0BAA; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:24:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AA5E07EA for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-132-31.netcologne.de [78.35.132.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B9D6EDC04A for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:23:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:23:49 +0100 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree? Message-ID: <20120312102349.4b860da4@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20120312091524.GB27991@malaquias.DHCP-GERAL> References: <20120310143015.6d507af3@weird.wonkology.org> <20120310153505.54bfd38e@digimed.co.uk> <20120310183606.GA13466@ksp.sk> <20120312091524.GB27991@malaquias.DHCP-GERAL> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 781d8419-7042-498a-a0cf-ef4cd9ab064e X-Archives-Hash: d0e2204ba975671c0bba6cf81c2506aa Jos=E9 Romildo Malaquias writes: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:36:07PM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: > > mke2fs -f -b1024 -i2048 /usr/img_portage >=20 > The -f option from mke2fs is to specify a fragment size and expects an > argument. Do you -F (which forces mke2fs to create a filesystem, even if > the specified device is not a partittion on a block special device)? I'm pretty sure that's what he meant, without the -F you need to confirm that you really want to create the FS. I forgot to mention this when I also quoted this line in my reply. Wonko