Reiserfs options on large disk

Joel Hammer joel
Mon May 17 11:56:03 PDT 2004


I just installed a 120 gig drive. All went well. I want to put a reiserfs
file system on it. I plan on using one big partition. This be will mainly
for backing up my other computers (guess who just had a crash?). I did
put a "small" partition in the first 1023 cylinders, just so I could
use it for a boot drive if I had to.

I see a lot of options with mkfs.reiserfs.

  -b | --block-size N              size of file-system block, in bytes
  -j | --journal-device FILE       path to separate device to hold journal
  -s | --journal-size N            size of the journal in blocks
  -o | --journal-offset N          offset of the journal from the start of
                                   the separate device, in blocks
  -t | --transaction-max-size N    maximal size of transaction, in blocks
  -h | --hash rupasov|tea|r5       hash function to use by default
  -u | --uuid UUID                 store UUID in the superblock
  -l | --label LABEL               store LABEL in the superblock
  --format 3.5|3.6                 old 3.5 format or newer 3.6
  -f | --force                     specified once, make mkreiserfs the whole
                                   disk, not block device or mounted
				   partition
				   specified twice, do not ask for confirmation
  -d | --debug                   print debugging information during mkreiser
  -V                              print version and exit

Are any of them necessary?

Thanks,

Joel
 


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