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RE: Partitioning with Ext2/FAT32



>As much as I remamber from my old slackware days ext2 has an option when
you
>format it to select the inode size from 1K,2K, upto 4K, it constant,
>it's the same on 512M HD as on 9G.
>
>Try to remove the "Translation" in the BIOS for this HD, and make it give
the
>real geometry, not the faked 128 HEADS one.
>> 

1) I understand how the FAT16/32 FS works. I dont know how the Ext2 works,
nor what INODE is. ummm.. pointer to man/howto plz? :-)) (or a simple
explanation...)

2) to do what u suggested, i need to backup and reformat. correct?

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