Just in case anyone ever reads this old post below and tries making a
file system with the little, lower case letter "t" below, it results
in a baffling bad block count error. The correct option is the upper
case, capital letter "T" :)
>Yes, if you are creating larger files. By default e2fsck assumes the
average
>file size is 8kB and allocates a corresponding number of inodes there. If,
>for example, you are storing lots of larger files there (digital photos,
MP3s,
>etc) that are in the MB range you can use "-t largefile" or
"-t largefile4"
>to specify an average file size of 1MB or 4MB respectively. You can also
>use -i or -N (see man page) to override the default bytes-per-inode value.
>This will also speed up e2fsck noticably.
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski at aecom.yu.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
