Mkfs.ext4

mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg01/lv01
mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
Creating filesystem with 2441850880 4k blocks and 305233920 inodes
Filesystem UUID: e6742357-a181-4b82-837f-9a01f3e52568
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
	4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
	102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544, 1934917632

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

Activities

1. Create an ext4 filesystem using mkfs.ext4 command
2. Learn about bytes per inode ratio: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ext4#Bytes-per-inode_ratio
3. resize2fs online and ext4 filesystem

See also

• Filesystem
• mount (/etc/fstab)
• mkfs
• inode, superblock and block size