On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 05:47:16 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 20 August 2011 21:21, Nilesh Govindarajan <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > > On 08/21/2011 09:00 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > >> Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run into that > >> before. I reran mke2fs to increase the inode count and that fixed > >> things. > > > > Sorry for the drop in, but I never knew that mke2fs can increase the > > number of inodes! > > I think I'll now place the portage tree on an ext2 disk image to speed > > up things, / has got fragmented badly due to portage tree :-\ > > Well, for the record, I'm not using ext2 but ext3 (mke2fs -j). > Although, now that I think about it, I suppose there's not much point > in having the Portage tree on a journaled FS. > > If you run man mke2fs, you should check out -N and -i. It was > trial-and-error (for me, anyway) to find the right number. Presumably, > -I fits in there somewhere as well. Do note that it only works when > creating the FS, you can't change the inode count dynamically.
I've never run out of inodes, even on small partitions. I just let ext4 make a fs with its default settings. Is there a magic formula to determine how many inodes are optimal? -- Regards, Mick
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