All,
If you don't want to run fsck on a ext3 partition at regular intervals
or upon reboots, you can use the tune2fs command. For example, I have
/dev/sdb8 mounted on /big which is 1 TB.
umount /big
/sbin/tune2fs -c0 -i0 /dev/sdb8
mount /big
Ideally, I do this before I put anything on the partition.
When making a filesystem on large partitions, I also usually maximize
the amount of space by eliminating the reserved portion of the
filesystem for superuser:
/sbin/mkfs.ext3 -m0 -F /dev/sdb8
Man pages on tune2fs & mkfs.ext3 give additional details.
As a CentOS user, I'm all in favor of easy fs options, that's the only
reason I use ext3. Never had any noticeable performance issues.
Cheers,
Brendon
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Brendon Hoch
Technology Manager
Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute
MSC 48, Boyd Hall 321A
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH 03264
(603)535-2818 Fax: (603)535-2723
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/~bhoch
