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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:15:52PM +0100, Daniel Troeder wrote: |
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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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> Is there any way to raise the number of inodes without using |
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> $ mkfs.ext4 -N BIGNUM |
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You can’t increase the number in an existing FS, you’ll have to reformat it. |
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If you have a backup, as you should anyway ;-) , you could boot a live system |
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and reformat. |
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On my system, /usr/portage currently contains 127000 files. But for reason of |
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increased performance I put it into a squashfs file. (There was a nice howto |
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on this ML some months ago). You could try that, which will free those inodes |
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up and ideally leaves you with one used inode for the squashfs image. Plus, if |
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you have enough RAM, you could put /var/tmp/portage into tmpfs. I have 3GB, |
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and this is fairly enough. For other hogs like firefox, LO and java, I use |
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binary packages though. |
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For comparision, I too have one (seldom two) kernel source trees and everything |
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else on / except /home. And while of the 17GB capacity barely 1GB is left free, |
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I still have 480k inodes free of the 1M in total. (I figured that I may have |
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more space for content if I reserved less for inodes). |
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