Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:45:32 -0500 | From | TenThumbs <> | Subject | Re: Ext2 defragmentation |
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"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: > > > 8 meg block groups imply you're using 1k blocks. 32 meg block groups > imply you're using 4k blocks. E2fsprogs 1.18 automatically creates > filesystems with 4k blocks when making large filesystems, but most folks > have filesystems created with earlier versions of e2fsprogs which used > 1k blocks by default, and so there are many filesystems using 1k block > sizes out there. That's why I said 8 megs or 32 megs..... > > - Ted >
Doesn't this change in e2fsprogs make it harder to recover data from a corrupt fs since there's no obvious way to know where to look for backup superblocks.
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