here it is for my home [root@abbaton:/home/alin]: tune2fs -l /dev/sda4 tune2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) Filesystem volume name: HOME Last mounted on: /home Filesystem UUID: c4947dc0-5b10-4e6e-9877-6259182d1bcd Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 11567104 Block count: 46257664 Reserved block count: 2312883 Free blocks: 7795781 Free inodes: 11241980 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 1012 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 8192 Inode blocks per group: 512 Flex block group size: 16 Filesystem created: Thu Oct 7 12:40:13 2010 Last mount time: Thu Aug 11 09:23:31 2011 Last write time: Thu Aug 11 09:23:31 2011 Mount count: 703 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Mon Jan 31 00:54:58 2011 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Lifetime writes: 1750 GB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Required extra isize: 28 Desired extra isize: 28 Journal inode: 8 First orphan inode: 11439477 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: b9ebf3e8-d1f5-4088-83c2-f32e528b179a Journal backup: inode blocks and this for my root [root@abbaton:/home/alin]: tune2fs -l /dev/sda3 tune2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) Filesystem volume name: ROOT Last mounted on: /root Filesystem UUID: 86dc9c52-c233-4f02-9f31-c63058d94631 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 1222992 Block count: 4882432 Reserved block count: 244134 Free blocks: 1822973 Free inodes: 928803 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 1022 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 8208 Inode blocks per group: 513 Flex block group size: 16 Filesystem created: Mon May 16 18:10:42 2011 Last mount time: Thu Aug 11 09:22:53 2011 Last write time: Thu Aug 11 09:22:53 2011 Mount count: 23 Maximum mount count: 36 Last checked: Thu Aug 4 08:12:25 2011 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Tue Jan 31 07:12:25 2012 Lifetime writes: 201 GB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Required extra isize: 28 Desired extra isize: 28 Journal inode: 8 First orphan inode: 945999 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: b3bfe178-227f-47a6-a290-8113b55e367d Journal backup: inode blocks On Thu 11 Aug 2011 13:03:48 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:10:12 Alin Marin Elena wrote:
It should call mkfs.ext4 and that one should return directly.
Check with tunectl your partition.
I am a little bit lost... tunectl does not seem to be provided by any package from the standard factory repos.
can that be done live?
Sorry, typo on my part, I meant tune2fs.
Have a look at my system: tune2fs -l /dev/sda5 tune2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) [...] Mount count: 81 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Mon Aug 9 09:58:20 2010 Check interval: 0 (<none>)
So, this partition is never checked!
Andreas -- Without Questions there are no Answers!
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