From: Christopher Chan <feizhou.asia@gmail.com>
To: Davy Durham <pubaddr2@davyandbeth.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3 issue..
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 20:53:52 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <add7e60b050503055326cac846@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <427770C9.1050808@davyandbeth.com>
Hi Davy.
On 5/3/05, Davy Durham <pubaddr2@davyandbeth.com> wrote:
> I was thinking about delving into this problem a bit. I don't have any
> unpartitioned free space on my physical drive. I was going to ask if
> it's possible to create a virtual device in RAM or in a file that I
> could then create an ext3 file system on for testing.. I'm at least
> trying to recreate the situation of the negative diskspace usage.. then
> maybe try to debug ext3 a bit. At first I thought "oh RAMFS!", then "no
> wait, I couldn't create an EXT3 file system that way".. I need a
> non-physical (block? or character?) device.
It is called a ram disk. You might want to pass options to the kernel
to increase the size of the ramdisk.
Look under Documentation for ramdisk.txt in the linux source tree.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-03 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-28 14:59 ext3 issue Davy Durham
2005-04-28 20:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-28 20:55 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-29 11:55 ` folkert
2005-05-03 20:38 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-29 2:35 ` Davy Durham
2005-04-29 13:19 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-05-02 1:27 ` Davy Durham
2005-05-03 12:38 ` Davy Durham
2005-05-03 12:53 ` Christopher Chan [this message]
2005-05-03 22:17 ` Darren Williams
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