[ale] fast format

Chris Fowler ChrisF at computone.com
Mon Mar 5 18:23:55 EST 2001





If I have a 20GB fs and want to mke2fs in under 30 seconds, how can I do this?


I will be formating at each boot so I don't need more than 2 copies of the superblock?  


can I create an image use dd to get some data then us dd to format partition?


Thanks,
Chris







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