From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KHIHR-0002Pm-FU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:03:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EC4DE06B2; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC20E06B2 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so2529595fga.14 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:03:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SO3sjpgElPAjThogbHSgGfZvM+mEQUd8lpHQscKPhnM=; b=tkIrOUxamqltYdqnASgPU6wsF/eu5KkzhaDbtKCqUjwaNnQ2OC7fr2CsAb8KhsnSeL 4HR2v08rZJcw+7/iFYARB4ydz2twVfSQYOB4qo8XhfqVAqXz4mVerHQfFmYOmNPkxiX5 UlZxlQPGAblZlYPmK5w7y0mGzbjAL+KClDhYQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=QiTaTIrLOqWPD1SLeFrGI1sbGdtVlzE5d3iMbQbG3eT0p5IiLNs8vOVHDMZuV9DLs1 1bV7Q1N2cNg8ibKjIJd63zfE6mBSCs7o8VROf9WA8IuptIZ19sC7DSChhOfB+4ULFMaa XJpA6/8X2DSNpD4SBfzZHsCuYvxdFSwbyVAD0= Received: by 10.86.95.20 with SMTP id s20mr9833723fgb.62.1215781398397; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:03:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ilievnet.com ( [84.21.204.200]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l19sm1086090fgb.7.2008.07.11.06.03.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:03:11 +0300 From: Daniel Iliev To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how does Gentoo's mke2fs determine how many inodes to create? Message-ID: <20080711160311.11051bce@ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: <48775376.3010709@anferny.ath.cx> References: <20080711111653.455A.0.NOFFLE@debian107.local> <20080711151500.3ae97b4f@ilievnet.com> <48775376.3010709@anferny.ath.cx> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c3065837-e130-40e9-aa1c-edc1b02a28da X-Archives-Hash: 67f71fff0779be9bc4088e3f6822dbe6 On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:35:02 +0100 Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Daniel Iliev wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:16:53 +0200 > > Miernik 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list