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 1KHIlg-0006CJ-Ne for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:34:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CE3CE0605; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.transitive.com (mx.transitive.com [85.91.225.206]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D95FE0605 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mx.transitive.com (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 7048F1478F; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:30:12 +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 24E0D14315 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:30:11 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <48776167.2080108@anferny.ath.cx> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:34:31 +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> <48775376.3010709@anferny.ath.cx> <20080711160311.11051bce@ilievnet.com> <200807111510.04234.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> In-Reply-To: <200807111510.04234.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d976a43c-0a3e-4f5f-8398-bf2d9ebb12db X-Archives-Hash: a9582ef0e9a460581ce0b57a8a59d108 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2008 schrieb ext Daniel Iliev: > > >>> You can though, dd the partition to another drive, re-format, and dd >>> it back.... >>> >> 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. >> > > Hmm, thought he was in ironic mode ;-) > > Bye... > > Dirk > Yes, that was it. honest guv. Ahem. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list