From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 32F52158095 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F9BBE08C4; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:14:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qt1-f171.google.com (mail-qt1-f171.google.com [209.85.160.171]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3146E0863 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:14:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qt1-f171.google.com with SMTP id cr9so15425937qtb.13 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 08:14:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:reply-to:from:references:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc; bh=E5Rmvtc5Kc0J6C8ZlBO4armYgNh9wAIZ3rgZ4xGOGDg=; b=W7FBkWjFufwgfbXeGTZwQEmnICH44PxlsVGuBnR1YdRFnTzc9bpNeM+6RyBRfOCj5x DrpHQbVVevo18f1Z0TngQuOLtI1bFdL8yZWhpUJ8vfuDkJosirZR/bmEYFgTnT/6nP39 NYxSwIOCoXyGVammRBhr8pNoKqofgQyafK5tX73WXeZwIXufaZmorYdoPD4On7ypJYL/ 29wY6hfQ50bJYaozEIJyskftdawiqoJ9ftbcOxqc4ikRHp5DHSKC3mFog6v9WBpVFpSn K55L84TEJmAa1bFqRCbrnpsOI2bd8jQFgxsq+97yhtOhXpfVF76ZH1HQUCOmsxePccTj L3VQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ACgBeo3FuiUTbFIW0SX7k0DvT2Eh1LBN+Yi+Ao3GNnssgT5BABTA+6u8 GTbZX523pxBWqtAccnFbw7QXzUamuBbrCA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA6agR6R7UhUkinF/j/cI0RhZkC36hlW1Ps1mUjzoVMivzsM6gVWN7MA88mAZjBLuJbIOn6nZ2xAUA== X-Received: by 2002:ac8:7d8c:0:b0:343:36b:3b04 with SMTP id c12-20020ac87d8c000000b00343036b3b04mr3883058qtd.252.1661440471243; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 08:14:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.18] (c-73-238-129-126.hsd1.ct.comcast.net. [73.238.129.126]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k13-20020ac8604d000000b0034300e35487sm14376174qtm.54.2022.08.25.08.14.30 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 25 Aug 2022 08:14:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6e3ee99d-46da-4cdf-93ed-838591a50f67@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:10:14 -0400 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.1.2 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive Content-Language: en-US-large To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <57a9895b-9357-17f1-8fb5-d0ede952eefc@gmail.com> <20220819042614.bj5crtjkgszbnshh@grusum.dhaller.de> <289fe32e-2815-c361-ea80-73d8df539417@iinet.net.au> <6f3feff2-eac9-f6ec-4a3c-c511cf469603@gmail.com> From: Jack In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 70d2ff47-020d-446f-8983-24dbf465e4b8 X-Archives-Hash: 3fe718113192169c397b8ef1b4d1076e On 8/25/22 08:52, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:43 AM Dale wrote: >> I've already got data on the drive now with the default settings so it >> is to late for the moment however, I expect to need to add drives >> later. Keep in mind, I use LVM which means I grow file systems quite >> often by adding drives. I don't know if that grows inodes or not. I >> suspect it does somehow. > It does not. It just means that if you want to reformat it you have > to reformat all the drives in the LVM logical volume. :) As I remember, if you enlarge a logical volume by adding a new physical volume, you then have to expand the filesystem to use that additional space.  Looking at resize2fs, it does increase the number of inodes, but only linearly in proportion to the amount of increased size.  I don't see any way to tell it to decrease, or even just not increase, the number of inodes. Related question - how much space would you actually save by decreasing the number of inodes by 90%?  Enough for one or two more videos?