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R. Tim Coslet

Post subject: Formating external HD

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:51 am

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I have a terabyte size USB disk connected to my SmartTop. I currently have it formatted ext4, but wanted to reformat it as XFS (for dynamic inode allocation).

However Disk Utility gives me an error that it can't find the mkfs.xfs file.

I checked on my SmartBook and found several /sbin/mkfs* files, but no mkfs.xfs file.

How do I get a mkfs.xfs file?

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markos

Post subject: Re: Formating external HD

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:58 am

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R. Tim Coslet wrote:

It's in xfsprogs package. xfs works great here on armhf :)

Konstantinos Margaritis
Senior Software Engineer, NEON optimizations
Genesi USA Inc

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R. Tim Coslet

Post subject: Re: Formating external HD

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:34 pm

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markos wrote:

R. Tim Coslet wrote:

How do I get a mkfs.xfs file?

It's in xfsprogs package. xfs works great here on armhf :)

Then how do I get that?

I think I found it...

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PurpleAlien

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:50 pm

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Hi,

Code:

apt-get install xfsprogs

Johan.

Johan Dams, Genesi USA Inc.
Director, Software Engineering

Yep, I have a blog... PurpleAlienPlanet

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R. Tim Coslet

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:38 pm

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PurpleAlien wrote:

Hi,

Code:

apt-get install xfsprogs

Johan.

I found it on the Software Center, along with a bunch of other XFS utilities that I don't need yet. All reformatted now and the files I had on the disk are back on the disk under the new FS.

BTW, here is another vote to support Mac OS X HFS+. I'd really like to be able to swap a USB disk between the SmartTop and my old PPC Macs.

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