Thread: I necessitate assist in formatting my external hard repel in Ext3 format.

I want to make an external HD to use only ext3 and Knoppix live CD. I just have a HDS for data storage. But here's the problem. When you create partitions using qtparted and then format it with ext3, it is a 40 GB partition to 2GB at the beginning and then after the restart nothing the same. And if I format XFS, I've done so far, only 256 kbs used. How can I manually partition in the same form of the command with ext3, without much space it takes.

XFS journaling file system is 256kByte is why you get the size. My ext3 partitions previously occupied only 900kbyte max. The format of any changes, you need to cut the default because it retains a lot. I tried the same thing on my USB drive and found that there are some files locked Lost & Found, which does not disappear so often that I remove and 9% of the file system permanently occupied.

Xfs inode is generated on the fly dynamically, unlike ext3. That is already generated during mkfs and thus take place far away, even if the drive is empty. This means that the advantage is present, it is the creation of xfs xfs inode space consuming. This can be dynamically created inodes in general use space better. When mke2fs how to determine the number of peer nodes to save space. The size of the logs can be influenced.

Before the partition, it is important to know the configuration partition. The command fdisk-l "to list partitions: fdisk / dev / hdX The command line is fdisk / dev / hdXX / cfdisk / dev / hdXX / parted To manipulate the partitions, the proprietary tool instrument is probably best known Partition Magic, but this is a. There are free tools available on Live CD that can do the same thing.

There are few things you should neglect this. With lilo, you must reinstall if the division on which it is set up has varied. GRUB is not requirement. It is mandatory to utilize a live CD to alter a system division of Linux. After altering the partitions, you may require to reconfigure lilo or grub / boot / grub / menu.lst or configuring / etc / fstab. For the partition thing, you can use unlike things such as Mandriva startup disk GParted and QtParted.