[ubuntu-users] Changing 232.9 NTFS hd to EXT3

[Ray Parrish]

Ted Hilts wrote:
> Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Ted Hilts <thilts at mcsnet.ca> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> This is a resend as the original email has not shown up on the list.
>>>
>>> I want to know the optimal solution.
>>> The hard drive (HD) is 232.9 GB.
>>> The application using the HD is the storage of web pages.
>>> The HD is currently mounted as NTFS and there is no data on it that I
>>> want..
>>> Ubuntu is installed in a dual boot grub configuration.with XP HOME.
>>> While Ubuntu is booted I want to format this drive.
>>> Eventually all but one of the 6 current NTFS formatted hard drives will
>>> be changed to EXT3.
>>>
>>> The following is what I think is the correct use of options to be
>>> applied after the 232.9 GB HD has been dismounted by Ubuntu with the
>>> command umount "/media/sdc1"
>>>
>>> sudo /sbin/mkfs.ext3 -c -i 1024 -b 1024 -L HDA1 -v /dev/hda1
>>>
>>> and then mount the HD.  Also, is there anything I have missed?
>>>
>>> I think the smallest size for blocks is now 1024 but at one time used to
>>> be 512.
>>>
>>> BELOW is the man page synopsis:
>>>
>>> SYNOPSIS
>>>      mke2fs  [  -c  |  -l  filename ] [ -b block-size ] [ -f
>>> fragment-size ] [ -g blocks-per-group ] [ -i
>>>      bytes-per-inode ] [ -I inode-size ] [ -j ] [ -J journal-options ]
>>> [ -N number-of-inodes ] [ -n  ]  [
>>>      -m  reserved-blocks-percentage  ]  [  -o creator-os ] [ -O
>>> feature[,...]  ] [ -q ] [ -r fs-revision-
>>>      level ] [ -E extended-options ] [ -v ] [ -F ] [ -L volume-label ]
>>> [ -M last-mounted-directory ] [ -S
>>>      ] [ -T filesystem-type ] [ -V ] device [ blocks-count ]
>>>
>>>      mke2fs  -O journal_dev [ -b block-size ] [ -L volume-label ] [ -n
>>> ] [ -q ] [ -v ] external-journal [
>>>      blocks-count ]
>>>
>>> DESCRIPTION
>>>      mke2fs is used to create an ext2/ext3 filesystem (usually in a
>>> disk partition).  device is the  spe?
>>>      cial  file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX).
>>> blocks-count is the number of blocks on the
>>>      device.  If omitted, mke2fs automagically figures the file system
>>> size.  If called  as  mkfs.ext3  a
>>>      journal is created as if the -j option was specified.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any input -- Ted
>>>
>>>
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>>>       
>> (Since there were no replies for your twin postings up to now...)
>>
>> Would you consider the use of a graphical application like Gparted?
>>
>>   
>>     
> I want to use the entire hard drive as ext3 format.  My concern is that 
> web pages are usually small even the big web pages. The last time I 
> formatted a Linux hard drive it was okay to specify block size as 512 
> but that seems not legal anymore. And then there is also the inodes.  So 
> I thought that maybe someone with a bit more experience on this issue 
> might either agree or make some recommendations. That is the reason I 
> provided all the information so they knew the size of the hard drive as 
> well as the kind of data to be stored on the hard drive.   I can't 
> possibly believe that there are no experienced Ubuntu  people on the 
> list that could agree with or suggest better options than those I 
> suggested. I tried the Ubuntu documentation but could not find these 
> questions explained. In the past (some time back) I would just leave the 
> block size to be the default  and would not consider it an issue and I 
> would set inodes as shown.  But this time I wanted to make sure that I 
> was creating an optimal solution.
>
> So that's the story and I hope someone out there can either agree with 
> my solution or offer better formatting options.
>
> Thanks -- Ted
>   
Hello again,

Just so you know, the recommendations I made in my previous post, are 
all based on what I just read in the docs while researching your 
question. My only actual experience with formatting a Linux file system, 
was obtained during the installation of my current Ubuntu operating 
system, and as such was done at a time when I did not understand a damn 
thing about Linux.

Since then I've been studying Linux and Ubuntu intensively on a daily 
basis, and have learned quite a bit, maybe most importantly, where to 
find the docs to look things up what I want to know. 8-) So... you may 
want to wait to see if any more experienced users weigh in with their 
opinions as well, before taking final action.

Later, Ray Parrish

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