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Formatting in Linux

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Corrigan

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I was wondering, when I format my WIN Box, I like to format 32k Clusters per track, I know its inefficent, space-wise, but it runs so much faster. can you do this in linux? I know the format procedures, but havent found any parameters to do this. This would be cool, if not, are there any third party programs to do this? BTW, I am using corel linux, and I also have slackware 4, If you need RH to do this, I may go out and get that. to anyone who knows about this, thanks in advance
 
That should be the "-b" option with mke2fs, but you might not be able to make bigger blocks than 4kb. I'm not sure that linux would run faster with bigger block-size anyway, ext2 file system is pretty different form FAT32 (and much better 🙂 ).
 
yes, the file systems are completely different, to try an do what you are doing,
what you would be concerned with is bytes-per-inode, and it is option -i (value) and your options are 1024 2048 and 4096 I believe. This will not produce the same effects, as changing cluster size, at least not to the same degree, unfortunately. you can change this setting, but I dont think you will notice much speed increase, and if you use a lot of small files, smaller bpi ratios are more effecient.
 
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