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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.

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11 13:03 UTC|newest]

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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