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 1KHHq7-0007Wx-Mn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:35:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7553FE0665; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.transitive.com (mx.transitive.com [85.91.225.206]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40339E0665 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mx.transitive.com (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 84B321478E; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:30:43 +0100 (BST) X-Spam-Score: -4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7-deb (2006-10-05) on mx.transitive.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7-deb Received: from [192.168.2.34] (anthony-desktop.transitives.com [192.168.2.34]) by mx.transitive.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E7314315 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:30:42 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <48775376.3010709@anferny.ath.cx> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:35:02 +0100 From: Anthony Metcalf User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how does Gentoo's mke2fs determine how many inodes to create? References: <20080711111653.455A.0.NOFFLE@debian107.local> <20080711151500.3ae97b4f@ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20080711151500.3ae97b4f@ilievnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f381b7cc-d3c4-4688-92a1-fd115c8d955f X-Archives-Hash: 4860a3ac9bc97393fcd3a8fc53290f59 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list