From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>, fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] common: _scratch_mkfs_sized should inherent default block size from test_dev
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 10:31:33 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140823003133.GS26465@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140822163712.GP11085@thunk.org>
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:37:12PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 07:48:07PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> > No, This will not works. Looks like you have missed the point.
> > helper has following signature:
> > _scratch_mkfs_sized <size in bytes> [optional blocksize]
> > But mke2fs accept filesystem size accounted in fs-blocks, so in order
> > to convert size in blocks to number of blocks we have to figure out blocksize.
>
> Ah, sorry. I didn't understand what problem you were trying to solve.
>
> But mke2fs does accept the filesystem size accounted in kilobytes (and
> megabytes, gigabytes, etc.). So you could just take the size in
> bytes, divide by 1024, and then append 'k', i.e:
>
> mke2fs $MKFS_OPTS $DEVICE $(expr $bytes / 1024)k
Not according to the man page:
blocks-count is the number of blocks on the device.
Perhaps the documentation needs to be updated to match reality?
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-23 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-16 13:13 [PATCH 1/6] common: add _mkfs_dev helper Dmitry Monakhov
2014-08-16 13:13 ` [PATCH 2/6] common: _scratch_mkfs_sized should inherent default block size from test_dev Dmitry Monakhov
2014-08-20 23:14 ` Dave Chinner
2014-08-21 7:36 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2014-08-21 9:23 ` Dave Chinner
2014-08-21 14:01 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-21 20:44 ` Dave Chinner
2014-08-22 13:24 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2014-08-22 15:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-22 15:48 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2014-08-22 16:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-23 0:31 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-08-16 13:13 ` [PATCH 3/6] src/e4compact cleanup Dmitry Monakhov
2014-08-16 13:13 ` [PATCH 4/6] src/e4compact: handle various block_size correctly Dmitry Monakhov
2014-08-16 13:13 ` [PATCH 5/6] src/e4compact: add sparse file optimization Dmitry Monakhov
2014-08-16 13:13 ` [PATCH 6/6] ext4/308: add new defrag compact test case Dmitry Monakhov
2014-09-08 12:21 ` Dave Chinner
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