topic Re: creating new linux filesystem in Operating System - Linux

creating new linux filesystem

Gerald_7 — Wed, 26 Dec 2001 03:09:23 GMT

I 've installed RH Linux 7.2 on a Intel processor. I have 70 Gbytes of disk space
on my IDE disk drive. I want to create
several new filesystems(u0, u1, u2; u3)
on the same disks. What is the best(easiest)
way of accomplishing this?

Thanks

Re: creating new linux filesystem

Junior C. — Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:53:45 GMT

Greald,

The following link should help you.

www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm

JRC

Re: creating new linux filesystem

I_M — Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:33:44 GMT

Hi

(1) use fdisk to create partition.
(2) use mkfs to create filesystem

# mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdax (ext2 fs)
# mke2fs -j /dev/hdax (ext3 fs)
# mkfs -t msdos /dev/hdax (dos fs)

(3) mount fs (edit /etc/fstab)

(4) Enjoy

Re: creating new linux filesystem

Gerald_7 — Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:59:25 GMT

Will using fdisk and mkfs be innocolous to the
RH O.S. and file systems currently installed
on the disk drive?

Thanks,

gerald

Re: creating new linux filesystem

Sachin Patel — Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:00:40 GMT

Hi Gerald,
use ext3 file system rather then ext2. It is fast to recover and you have less data loss.

Sachin

Re: creating new linux filesystem

Mark Fenton — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:04:24 GMT

Gerald -- that depends on whether you have "extra" - unused space.

If you've already assigned all space on the drive to partitions, obviously you'll have to redo the whole thang and start over -- there not being any way to gracefully reduce an active partition.

If you do have un-allocated space, allocating it shouldn't do violence to existing partitions.