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Thursday, November 21, 2013

yum grouplist doesn't display all groups

I've noticed in Fedora that the yum grouplist command doesn't actually display all the groups:

# yum grouplist | grep Virt
# yum grouplist | grep Virt | wc -l
0

However you can still see a group with groupinfo:
# yum groupinfo Virtualization
Loaded plugins: langpacks, list-data, presto, refresh-packagekit
Group: Virtualization
 Group-Id: virtualization
 Description: These packages provide a virtualization environment.

Apparently there can be a "hidden" tag on groups, as reported in this Bugzilla entry:

Bug 986531 - unhide all groups from yum grouplist

You can see all the groups with the yum grouplist hidden command:

# yum grouplist | wc -l
39
# yum grouplist hidden | wc -l
126

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

how does mke2fs decide automatic check mount count?

Whenever you create an ext3 or ext4 filesystem with mkfs or mke2fs, a message is printed saying "This filesystem will be automatically checked every X mounts or Y days, whichever comes first".

However, the number seems to vary depending on the filesystem. How is this value calculated? I used the source of e2fsprogs-1.42.8 and the cscope source code tool to find this out.