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From: Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how does Gentoo's mke2fs determine how many inodes to create?
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:03:21
Message-Id: 20080711160311.11051bce@ilievnet.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how does Gentoo's mke2fs determine how many inodes to create? by Anthony Metcalf
1 On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:35:02 +0100
2 Anthony Metcalf <Anthony.Metcalf@×××××××××××.cx> wrote:
3
4 > Daniel Iliev wrote:
5 > > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:16:53 +0200
6 > > Miernik <public@××××××××××××××.name> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >
9 > > /etc/mke2fs.conf - this file contains the default options plus
10 > > several presets.
11 > >
12 > > The number of inodes can be specified at creation time with the "-N"
13 > > parameter. AFAIK it cannot be changed afterwards.
14 > >
15 > >
16 > >
17 > You can though, dd the partition to another drive, re-format, and dd
18 > it back....
19 >
20 > Anthony
21
22
23 No, not really. "dd" is not good for this case because it works on
24 lower level and will copy and restore the file system also. A normal
25 archive program like GNU Tar should do the trick.
26
27 --
28 Best regards,
29 Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-user] how does Gentoo's mke2fs determine how many inodes to create? Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>