Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 05:47:16 Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
> On 20 August 2011 21:21, Nilesh Govindarajan <contact@nileshgr.com> wrote:
> > On 08/21/2011 09:00 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
> >> Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run into that
> >> before. I reran mke2fs to increase the inode count and that fixed
> >> things.
> > 
> > Sorry for the drop in, but I never knew that mke2fs can increase the
> > number of inodes!
> > I think I'll now place the portage tree on an ext2 disk image to speed
> > up things, / has got fragmented badly due to portage tree :-\
> 
> Well, for the record, I'm not using ext2 but ext3 (mke2fs -j).
> Although, now that I think about it, I suppose there's not much point
> in having the Portage tree on a journaled FS.
> 
> If you run man mke2fs, you should check out -N and -i. It was
> trial-and-error (for me, anyway) to find the right number. Presumably,
> -I fits in there somewhere as well. Do note that it only works when
> creating the FS, you can't change the inode count dynamically.

I've never run out of inodes, even on small partitions.  I just let ext4 make 
a fs with its default settings.  Is there a magic formula to determine how 
many inodes are optimal?
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Regards,
Mick

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