From: Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how does Gentoo's mke2fs determine how many inodes to create?
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:03:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080711160311.11051bce@ilievnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48775376.3010709@anferny.ath.cx>
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:35:02 +0100
Anthony Metcalf <Anthony.Metcalf@anferny.ath.cx> wrote:
> Daniel Iliev wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:16:53 +0200
> > Miernik <public@public.miernik.name> wrote:
> >
> >
> > /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.
> >
> >
> >
> You can though, dd the partition to another drive, re-format, and dd
> it back....
>
> Anthony
No, not really. "dd" is not good for this case because it works on
lower level and will copy and restore the file system also. A normal
archive program like GNU Tar should do the trick.
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Best regards,
Daniel
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-11 11:16 [gentoo-user] how does Gentoo's mke2fs determine how many inodes to create? Miernik
2008-07-11 12:15 ` Daniel Iliev
2008-07-11 12:35 ` Anthony Metcalf
2008-07-11 12:39 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-07-11 13:03 ` Daniel Iliev [this message]
2008-07-11 13:10 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-07-11 13:34 ` Anthony Metcalf
2008-07-11 15:45 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-07-11 17:51 ` Robert Bridge
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