Re: Newbie help-- Making BTRFS partition

2013-02-02 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 08:56:20PM +0530, Atri Sharma wrote: Hi all, I am running a Fedora 17 system. I am trying to set up a new partition of 2 GB size which has BTRFS as file system. When I am trying to do mkfs.btrfs on a partition, I get: [atri@AtriServer ~]$ mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda3

Re: Newbie help-- Making BTRFS partition

2013-02-02 Thread Atri Sharma
Hi Hugo, Thanks. I was having some issues with my priviledges, and sorting them out has worked. Thanks a ton, Atri On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 08:56:20PM +0530, Atri Sharma wrote: Hi all, I am running a Fedora 17 system. I

Re: Newbie help-- Making BTRFS partition

2013-02-02 Thread Atri Sharma
Hi Hugo, Thanks for the earlier help. I needed some more help please. I created a BTRFS partition on /dev/sda3. To verify, the output of df -T command: e /dev/sda1 fuseblk 102396 25180 77216 25% /run/media/atri/System Reserved /dev/sda3

Re: Newbie help-- Making BTRFS partition

2013-02-02 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 11:06:23PM +0530, Atri Sharma wrote: Hi Hugo, Thanks for the earlier help. I needed some more help please. I created a BTRFS partition on /dev/sda3. To verify, the output of df -T command: e /dev/sda1 fuseblk 102396 25180

Re: Newbie help-- Making BTRFS partition

2013-02-02 Thread Atri Sharma
Thanks a ton Hugo. It worked like a charm. One last thing, how do I create a document in that subvolume? I am running some tests for seeing the locking trends when mass creation and deletion of files take place. Thanks, Atri On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk

Re: Newbie help-- Making BTRFS partition

2013-02-02 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 11:38:38PM +0530, Atri Sharma wrote: Thanks a ton Hugo. It worked like a charm. One last thing, how do I create a document in that subvolume? Same way you'd create a file anywhere else in any other filesystem... :) btrfs is magic and different, but it's not

Re: Newbie help-- Making BTRFS partition

2013-02-02 Thread Atri Sharma
Thanks Hugo. Let me try it out. Thanks a ton! Atri On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 11:38:38PM +0530, Atri Sharma wrote: Thanks a ton Hugo. It worked like a charm. One last thing, how do I create a document in that subvolume?