Hi!

Hum... So I've already gone for FFS... and data is now on the disk... 
and it's production data... so not ready to try out LFS on that... :)

I guess I will live with strong backup processes. :)

Thanks,
Gilles.

Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> Hello Gilles,
>
> maybe you want to try LFS, which uses a sequential log, similar to an
> journaling file system. LFS recovers in a fast in case of a crash
> without fsck'ing the whole 700 GB disk.  LFS is still considered
> experimental but have improved alot recently, so please use it for
> testing purposes.
>
> For creating an LFS partition do this:
>
> -use disklabel to change your partition to 4.4LFS
> -then newfs_lfs like this:
> # newfs_lfs -A wd1e
> (-A is optional)
> and mount it with
> # mount -t lfs /dev/wd1e /yourmountpoint
>
> fstab entry:
> /dev/wd1e /home/lfs lfs rw 1 1
>
> Have fun.
> Zafer.
>
> 2007/4/3, Gilles Gravier <Gilles@gravier.org>:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Just got myself a new 700GB IDE disk to add to my trusty NetBSD 3.1
>> server as a data disk. The system disk is seen as wd0 ... the new disk
>> is wd1 ... Question is : what are the steps to format and partition that
>> new disk so that it is one big volume (i.e. 100% of the disk
>> capacity)... preferably with some form of journalized file system
>> (though my machine has yet to experience a crash which could corrupt a
>> file system - thanks to NetBSD being rock stable)?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Gilles Gravier
>>
>>

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