From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6897F5A for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 02:03:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB1A7304032 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:03:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.143]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 48iE7WfVtMBDYEIH for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 17:03:12 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [RFD]: Help in setting up XFS Message-ID: <20140818070312.GM20518@dastard> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Prithvi Rathore Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:22:37AM +0530, Prithvi Rathore wrote: > Hi, > As the subject states, I would like to setup and use XFS on an external USB drive. I am currently using Ubuntu 14.04 on MacBook Air 2013. > My understanding is: > > 1) I will have to install the packages > $ sudo apt-get install xfsprogs > $ sudo apt-get install xfsdump > > 2) I will have to create the filesystem for the USB drive > $ mkfs.xfs -f dev/sdab1 > -f option needed to overwrite any exisitng filesytem And then mount it appropriately and it will be ready to use. Nothing more. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs