Block devices are a specific type of Unix device node, typically representing storage devices such as hard drives, CD-ROMs, etc.

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Create variable sized RAM-backed file systems (Ext4 and Btrfs)

For benchmarking purposes I need to format and mount variable sized ram-backed block devices with Ext4 and Btrfs. Unfortunately the only solution I have come across uses ramdisks which seem to be ...
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Automatically creating volume partitions on system reboot

I followed this guide: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Amazon+EC2+Quickstart to set up Mongodb. It had me create a RAID 10 array out of the four devices on EBS. Then it had me create a physical ...