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How to: Find the inode size of an ext2 / ext3 filesystem

by Vivek Gite · 5 comments

Q. I need to find out inode size of my ext3 file system for recovery purpose. How can I find the inode size of an ext2/ext3 filesystem?
A. You need to use tune2fs command, which allows the system administrator to adjust various tunable filesystem parameters on Linux ext2/ext3 filesystems.
Find the inode size of the filesystem
The -l [...]

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How to: Formatting Linux Filesystem

by Vivek Gite · 5 comments

Q. How do I format Linux file system? Can you tell me command names to format and create a Linux file system?
A. Formatting linux filesystem required for many reasons. If you want to expand file system or you just added new hard disk drive or create separate partitions for security and performance reasons. Whatever [...]

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