Large file system creation

Tue Apr 8 16:21:25 UTC 2008

>> That looks like what I need.  I've got a seperate 32GB array to boot
>>  off of, so that's perfect.  Now to just read some man pages.  Thanks!
>
> How many memory do you have in this machine ?? To fsck 9 TB you will

there is swap too . but my 1.4TB partition can be fsck'ed on 1GB RAM 
without swap.

> need a LOT of memory....
depends of block sized and inode counts.

it will be most likely large 32K blocks, so quick fsck and little RAM