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Hi Dale, |
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on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:44:54PM -0500, you wrote: |
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> How do you run out of inodes anyway? I use reiserfs for most partitions |
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> except /boot and portage. My /data partition has 75,000 files and 3,600 |
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> directories. No problems so far but not near as many files as you have. |
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You can adjust the number of inodes to create at mkfs using -i, -N or -T |
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which are just different ways of doing the same thing. Lowering the |
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number of inodes wastes less disk space if you know you're not going to |
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write many files anyway. This feature bit me once when I set up a |
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-Tlargefile4 partition (i.e. one inode per 4 MiB of disk) for videos. As |
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it happens, I had to misuse it for backups at some point and was very |
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puzzled when df showed 3% used space but even "touch" gave me a "no space |
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left on device" error. tarring the stuff I had planned to just copy |
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solved it and would prolly have been faster in the first place :) |
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cheers, |
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Matthias |
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