On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Joe Bacom wrote:
> What size did you make /dev/sdb6?
fdisk /dev/sdb reports for sdb6:
/dev/sdb6 354 355 16033 83 Linux
which to me says around 16 MB. The trouble I have is that is 10,000
blocks for mkfs.xfs the same type of blocks as for fdisk? If so, then I
have 16,033 - more than the 10,000 blocks I was trying to specify on the
mkfs.xfs command.
> Log size of 10,000 blocks it would need to be 40M
>
> Here is the formula that I use:
>
> 10000 blocks * 4 (4k blocks) / 1024 = size in meg.
According to this my log partition is too small (if I want a log size of
10,000b).
> Example:
> for a log size of 128M you need to specify 32768b
>
> 32768 * 4 / 1024 = 128M
Is there some advantage to a 128 MB log size versus a 10,000b log size?
On another note - I created my / partition with an external log. How do I
pass the logdev parameter to the kernel so it can be mounted? The
lilo.conf man page didn't have anything to indicate how to pass mount
parameters to the kernel. If I use a different partition for / that
doesn't have an external log all is well.
James Rich
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