How about making it an option in the Expert install?
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Sylvain Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > In older Mandrake, ext2 partitions were formated with default option.
> > Should it still be the case, the formating options may be changed with
> > enabling Superblock
>
> you mean sparse superblock? the default option is ok
>
> > and reducing the number of inode.
> >
>
>
>
> some numbers:
>
> (root@kenobi)[/]-# for i in $(perl -ane 'print "$F[3]\n" if
> /^\s/' /proc/partitions); do /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/$i 2>/dev/null |
> grep -e "Inode count" -e "^Free inodes:"; done
> Inode count: 40320
> Free inodes: 36825
> Inode count: 1904640
> Free inodes: 1522509
> Inode count: 223232
> Free inodes: 164544
> Inode count: 2000
> Free inodes: 1970
> Inode count: 185088
> Free inodes: 185077
> Inode count: 2072640
> Free inodes: 2031702
>
> pixel@leia:/>for i in $(perl -ane 'print "$F[3]\n" if /^\s/'
> /proc/partitions); do /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/$i 2>/dev/null | grep
> -e "Inode count" -e "^Free inodes:"; done
> Inode count: 26104
> Free inodes: 18422
> Inode count: 128520
> Free inodes: 98794
> Inode count: 127744
> Free inodes: 86967
> Inode count: 97536
> Free inodes: 96061
> Inode count: 155040
> Free inodes: 154260
> Inode count: 359744
> Free inodes: 359644
>
> using this number, we can say reducing by half the number of
> inodes is safe. Or
> am i missing something?
>
>
