dhan.war
2014-Jan-05 04:34 UTC
how to properly mount an external usb hard drive & other questions
hi all i am using up to date debian sid with xfce desktop environment. i am using Linux 3.13-rc6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.13~rc6-1~exp1 (2013-12-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux from experimental. i have installed usbmount to auto mount all the devices connected through USB. [cmd# 1] i have created btrfs partition on my external USB hard drive using the following command : # mkfs.btrfs -f -L btrfs -m single /dev/sdc Turning ON incompat feature 'extref': increased hardlink limit per file to 65536 fs created label btrfs on /dev/sdc nodesize 16384 leafsize 16384 sectorsize 4096 size 931.51GiB Btrfs v3.12 [cmd# 2] my permissions of the device : # ls -l /dev/sdc brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 32 Jan 5 09:47 /dev/sdc my questions : [a] does the partition created by me is appropriate ? [b] how do i specify lzo compression in fstab ? last time when i tried to create entry fstab it is complaining about the auto mounting of the device by automount. [c] what compression method is used by btrfs by default for the partitions created using the command mentioned above. [ cmd# 1] [d] does the file permissions for my device are accurate ? [ cmd# 2] [e] what is the appropriate fstab entry for my device ? [ i don't want to remove usbmount]. [f] should i use single or dup for the device ? please provide suggestions for configuring my device appropriately. thank you for reading the message patiently. please alway cc me. regards, wardhan. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html