Ext2

ext2 (second extended filesystem) is an open source disk filesystem created for Linux.

Kernel
Activate the following kernel options for ext2 support:

Support for optional ext2 features:

Large drive support
When the system has large disks (2 TB or greater) and a 32-bit kernel is being used, the following option must be enabled:

USE flags
The package contains the utilities to work with the filesystem. In Gentoo Linux is part of the system set and should be already installed on the system.

Emerge
After setting the USE flag update the system so the changes take effect:

Creation
To create an ext2 filesystem on the partition:

Please replace with the actual partition to format.

By default, 5% of available disk space is reserved for the root user. This is usually a good thing for the partition where the directory is mounted, but it may be not desirable on other partitions. To lose reserve disk space for the root user use 's  option:

Mount
Filesystems can be mounted in several ways:


 * - The command used to manually a mount filesystems. Requires administrative privileges.
 * fstab - A file that defines automatic mounting of filesystems at boot time.
 * Removable media - Automatic mount on file demand.
 * AutoFS - Automatic mount on file access.

External resources

 * http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org - The extended file system wiki.