On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Manish Katiyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Rohit Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I want to read ext2 inode. > > > > Its just like i have a inode no. say 1900.. > > so from the block group we can read the group descriptor and from there > we > > can identify the first block no. of the inode table. > > So we can read the required inode no.i.e. 1900 from this inode table. > > I found that there are 8176 inodes per block group using tune2fs utility, > > so if i am interested in reading 8177th inode then i have to move on > > to next block groups inode table. > > If you have 8176 inodes per block group this means you have a block > size of 1024. Basically the number of inodes in a block group is > blocksize*8 (1 inode block bitmap). If you want to read 8177th inode, > go to second blockgroup and read the group descriptor, find the block > number of inode table and read the first entry from there. > Hey manish, I believe his question is how do we go to the next block group ? > > Hope that helps. > > Thanks - > Manish katiyar > > > > > I just want to verify if i am correct on this. > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- Regards, Sandeep. "To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner."
