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Re: Smallest ext2 file system?



On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:22:15PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > I've been experimenting with using an image file to hold small sets of
> > files, and have run into a snag. If I make the file only a few K large,
> > mke2fs complains it can't write a superblock. So, my question is: What is
> > the smallest ext2 file system that can be created?
> 
> WHy would anyone even want to make an ext2fs filesystem that small?
> There are special filesystem for things like that.

In particular, you might try the minix fs.



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