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)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6519158094 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA04DE08F7; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pl1-f174.google.com (mail-pl1-f174.google.com [209.85.214.174]) (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 83C3CE089C for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:52:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pl1-f174.google.com with SMTP id l3so407206plb.10 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 05:52:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc; bh=KxSkqI79W4BFwIABxsC3xMYHnATfF/UtrSV6kTmRX0U=; b=N11uUUKIa+paCRioTz52BU7DfKD0rlTvbjmwkxJ4TQVIW+sBDsA0WlbjfbNE5C7/k/ 5VUpTXIPR+z2ZDXfBBfLVAxn6XxtyMguizfQBcSIM2QlakLpex0znVcx+1+hoKWsPGKp iJnd2PCHLZdzwaBjlgxGyJEs3XGo2nqBuOf7xBKYremsKZ4hggKVG2VGQQvatYCxOkUL ky9T/SBctfC8rASmMi6drcPaGp26fIBs67V16m0nJOnSpqPAaZ0K/BMzGyXn8QKDyAo2 IYg8aSVxg8ANM3wLDOPOK5kKGuTt6eFRF/NnfvJ51Au9az8a8OXiWHTfUgimMCfsQcx0 Xtzg== X-Gm-Message-State: ACgBeo3fz2/b2owIClEb1iaeIiaF+v53x4E/C+uABDXwam/TwBoHFovx xjGzpi0TftDpdhRy7AGdzDgNFwNJ7/sraNUA+xaT0ilVy30= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA6agR527vh3Su5+prZkl0creaq/vV+hDLYW+UXHFlgg8B2e+In8dCNEfez8edJco9oGyBICVbmOoQY9xFQmIamUQ44= X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:70ca:b0:172:e067:d7b4 with SMTP id l10-20020a17090270ca00b00172e067d7b4mr3657840plt.54.1661431954868; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 05:52:34 -0700 (PDT) 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 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> In-Reply-To: <6f3feff2-eac9-f6ec-4a3c-c511cf469603@gmail.com> From: Rich Freeman Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 08:52:25 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 56600221-e08b-4480-87e3-8d94480c7ee4 X-Archives-Hash: 383b1a01c7669f7d0d8fd499d09c3b01 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. :) There are filesystems that don't have fixed limits on inodes on filesystem creation, but ALL filesystems have tradeoffs. This is one of the big limitations of ext4, but ext4 also has a number of advantages over alternatives. I tend to use zfs but it has its own issues. I don't believe inodes are fixed in zfs, but the last time I looked into it there were potential issues with reducing the size of a vdev. (I think that was being worked on but I'm not sure how stable that is, or if it is compatible with grub. Actually, one of my pet peeves has been that finding out exactly what zfs features are compatible with grub is tricky. Oh, you can google it, but I don't think there is any official page that is kept up to date.) -- Rich