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Commands using tune2fs

Terminal - Commands using tune2fs - 9 results

tune2fs -l $(df -P / | awk 'NR==2 {print $1}') | sed -n 's/^.*created: *//p'

2012-05-31 12:12:35

User: forcefsck

Functions: awk df sed tune2fs

Tags: ext3 ext4 timestamp installation

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Find out the installation time of a linux system (when installed in a ext2/3/4 file system)

Find out the earliest installation time of a linux system by getting the / filesystem creation time. This example is only valid the os is installed on an ext2/3/4 filesystem.

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tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda6

2011-12-07 10:20:01

User: Dhinesh

Functions: tune2fs

Tags: tune2fs

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Unlock more space form your hard drive

This command changes the reserved space for privileged process on '/dev/sda' to 1 per cent.

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tune2fs -l /dev/XXXX | grep -w ^"Block size:"

2011-02-10 16:39:14

User: ncaio

Functions: grep tune2fs

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Check default block size on ext2/ext3 filesystems

the result of the command helped a check the Maximum file size and Maximum file system size.

EXT3 Exemple:

Block size; MAX File size; Maximum file system size

1 KiB; 16 GiB ; 2 TiB

2 KiB ; 256 GiB ; 8 TiB

4 KiB ; 2 TiB ; 16 TiB

8 KiB[limits 1]; 2 TiB; 32 TiB

tune2fs -c -1 -i 0 /dev/VG0/data

2010-05-29 08:20:35

User: christian773

Functions: tune2fs

Tags: Filesystem System Administration

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turn off auto hard disc boot scanning for ext3

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tune2fs -l $(df -P / | tail -n1 | cut -d' ' -f1 ) | grep 'Filesystem created:'

2010-05-29 08:15:25

User: christian773

Functions: cut df grep tail tune2fs

Tags: System Administration install system

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show system installation date

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tune2fs -j /dev/sdX

2009-09-30 02:54:38

User: Rabbit67890

Functions: tune2fs

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Converts ext2 to ext3

Does what summary says

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sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda4

2009-09-14 21:11:55

User: bassel

Functions: sudo tune2fs

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Setting reserved blocks percentage to 1%

According to tune2fs manual, reserved blocks are designed to keep your system from failing when you run out of space. Its reserves space for privileged processes such as daemons (like syslogd, for ex.) and other root level processes; also the reserved space can prevent the filesystem from fragmenting as it fills up. By default this is 5% regardless of the size of the partition.

http://www.ducea.com/2008/03/04/ext3-reserved-blocks-percentage/

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tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/yourpartition

2009-06-23 17:42:01

User: starchox

Functions: tune2fs

Tags: Filesystem ext3 ext4

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Migrate existing Ext3 filesystems to Ext4

Before doing this, back-up all data on any ext3 partitions that are to be converted to ext4.

After running previous command you MUST run fsck, is needed to return the filesystem to a consistent state.

fsck -pDf /dev/yourpartition

Edit /etc/fstab and change the 'type' from ext3 to ext4 for any partitions that are converted to ext4.

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df / | awk '{print $1}' | grep dev | xargs tune2fs -l | grep create

2009-02-16 18:45:03

User: Kaio

Functions: awk df grep tune2fs xargs

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Check the age of the filesystem

Very useful set of commands to know when your file system was created.