28 Apr
2004
28 Apr
'04
8:30 a.m.
Hi Brent,
Create a small partition in a file:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=partition bs=1024 count=1024
Create a file system on it:
# mkfs.ext3 partition
Mount it:
# mkdir mp
# mount -o loop partition mp
Create some files and directories on it
# mkdir mp/test
# touch mp/file1
# touch mp/file2
# touch mp/test/file3
Umount it:
# umount partition
Analyse the result:
od -h partition | less
Looks great - I got a similar input from one office colleague,
works like a charm! If only I had the time to refine this for
the course... won't be for today I guess, but I can sure make
use of it later on. I'll have to determine where the limits
are of bootblock, superblock, inode list, data blocks etc.,
guess I'll have to read up details on ext3 (or whatever
filesystem I choose to try this on).
Thanks, Eric