I use EXT2 and EXT3 filesystems. The choice of which should be a
parameter to the formatter, leaving the mdisk formatted but without a
filesystem if no filesystem was selected. The no-filesystem case would
be for volumes I want to add to a LVM group.
/Tom Kern
Phil Smith III wrote:
Thomas Kern wrote:
If such a tool can be made, why not go just a bit further and mimic what
would have been done by dasdfmt and fdisk (1 partion on the whole mdisk)?
Indeed. This can't be THAT hard, but the problem is that it needs someone
> who understands BOTH sides of the fence at a fairly deep level.
> Or two someones, one on each side, who can talk to each other.
> Boeblingen?
And optionally, why not put in the correct blocks that mimic an mkfs?
Which fs? ext2? ext3? Reiser? xFS? HamsterFS? etc...
