I want to play around with XFS, so I patched my generic 2.4.17 kernel with the latest XFS kernel patches from SGI. I then installed the following RPMs from Cooker:
acl-1.1.3-1mdk.i586.rpm attr-1.1.3-2mdk.i586.rpm libacl1-1.1.3-1mdk.i586.rpm libacl1-devel-1.1.3-1mdk.i586.rpm libattr0-1.1.3-2mdk.i586.rpm libattr0-devel-1.1.3-2mdk.i586.rpm libdm0-0.2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm libdm0-devel-0.2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm libxfs0-1.3.13-1mdk.i586.rpm libxfs0-devel-1.3.13-1mdk.i586.rpm xfsdump-1.1.7-1mdk.i586.rpm xfsprogs-1.3.13-1mdk.i586.rpm So I think I'm ready to go. Here's my question ... I have unpartitioned space on one of my drives (on /dev/hda). The only times I've ever created partitions in the past was by using cfdisk, during installs. I already have a /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5. Is all I need to do mkfs -t xfs /dev/hda6 or do I need to use cfdisk to create a /dev/hda6 partition first? If so, using what type? Will xfs be available now as an option? Confused on how to start Michael -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg> "Sometimes your lack of sympathy gets hard to explain, So on your mask of make-up you just paint a little parody of pain" "When you were young", Del Amitri
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