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Daniel Troeder writes: |
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> I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and |
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> /var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to |
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> move that some weeks ago, because the fs was "full". Now it's "full" |
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> again, though it has free blocks. But no inodes are left: |
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> $ fsck -vf /dev/sda5 |
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> [..] |
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> 655360 inodes used (100.00%) |
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> [..] |
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> |
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> $ find /gentoo -xdev | wc -l |
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> 655338 |
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> That's really disappointing. I was using reiser3fs and XFS before, and |
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> they didn't have that kind of limitation... Uhm... not meant as a rant - |
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> I like ext4 - that's why I'm moving (almost?) everything to it... |
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> Is there any way to raise the number of inodes without using |
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> $ mkfs.ext4 -N BIGNUM |
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Not really I think. You can enlarge the file system with resize2fs, this |
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will also increase the number of inodes, but that's probably hard when not |
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using LVM, and it's not really what you want, as the file system will be |
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larger than it needs to be. |
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Wonko |
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