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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:16:53 +0200 |
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Miernik <public@××××××××××××××.name> wrote: |
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> I installed Gentoo using the handbook, and the root partition has |
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> 4094951424 bytes (a 4 GB USB pendrive), and "mke2fs -j /dev/sda2" as |
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> on |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap4 |
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> created me a partition with only 249984 inodes. That was REALLY SILLY |
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> of him, because: |
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> przehyba ~ # df -i /dev/sda2 |
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> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on |
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> /dev/sda2 249984 249739 245 100% / |
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> przehyba ~ # |
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> I ran out of inodes! Now it cries that the disk ran out of space when |
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> I try to compile anything. I did already get rid of /usr/share/doc/ as |
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> there are many small files there, and purged /var/tmp/ too, but again |
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> emerge quickly fills all possible inodes, and fails. |
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> Why did he did so little inodes? On another machine, which is Debian |
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> and about 5 GB disk, I have 752192 inodes and even on a 3.2 GB one |
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> 376096 inodes, so here why did I get so little by default? |
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> What can I do now, besides starting the installation over again from |
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> the beggining, which would be 2 days of work lost! |
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> Any other places besides /usr/share/doc and /var/tmp/ I can look to |
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> recover a lot of inodes? Can someone fix mke2fs so it doesn't do that |
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> to anyone again in the future? |
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/etc/mke2fs.conf - this file contains the default options plus several |
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presets. |
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The number of inodes can be specified at creation time with the "-N" |
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parameter. AFAIK it cannot be changed afterwards. |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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