Re: [gentoo-user] how does Gentoo's mke2fs determine how many inodes to create?

[Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:16:53 +0200
Miernik <public@public.miernik.name> wrote:

> I installed Gentoo using the handbook, and the root partition has
> 4094951424 bytes (a 4 GB USB pendrive), and "mke2fs -j /dev/sda2" as
> on
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap4
> created me a partition with only 249984 inodes. That was REALLY SILLY
> of him, because:
> 
> przehyba ~ # df -i /dev/sda2
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2             249984  249739     245  100% /
> przehyba ~ #
> 
> I ran out of inodes! Now it cries that the disk ran out of space when
> I try to compile anything. I did already get rid of /usr/share/doc/ as
> there are many small files there, and purged /var/tmp/ too, but again
> emerge quickly fills all possible inodes, and fails.
> 
> Why did he did so little inodes? On another machine, which is Debian
> and about 5 GB disk, I have 752192 inodes and even on a 3.2 GB one
> 376096 inodes, so here why did I get so little by default?
> 
> What can I do now, besides starting the installation over again from
> the beggining, which would be 2 days of work lost!
> 
> Any other places besides /usr/share/doc and /var/tmp/ I can look to
> recover a lot of inodes? Can someone fix mke2fs so it doesn't do that
> to anyone again in the future?
> 


/etc/mke2fs.conf -  this file contains the default options plus several
presets.

The number of inodes can be specified at creation time with the "-N"
parameter. AFAIK it cannot be changed afterwards.



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Best regards,
Daniel
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