On 12.12.2011 15:54, Alex Schuster wrote: > Joseph writes: >> That is scary. I just install new HD with 2TB capacity and ext4 that is >> 2% full and: >> $ find /home/joseph/ -xdev | wc -l >> shows: 169977 that is 26% full. > No, that is 26% of the number of total inodes _Daniel_ has on his small > partition. Yours is bigger, so you have more inodes. My largest partition > has 724G, and 46 million inodes. Use df -i to see how many you have. Ah yes... My partition is only 10GB, and mkfs.ext4 sais in its man page (at "-N" option) it uses a "calculation [..] based on the number of blocks and the bytes-per-inode ratio". So a small partition will have fewer inodes than a big partition.
mkfs.extX uses settings for the inode-block-ratio from /etc/mke2fs.conf. The "-T" option configures which one to use, my partition falls into category 512MB < "default" < 4TB, which makes it use inode_ratio=16384. I think I should use the "news" type. It has inode_ratio=4096, which should give me 4 times the inodes.... testing... yes: 2621440 inodes instead of 655360. Previously I used reiser3fs for this kind of filesystem usage, but it's not faster than extX anymore. Moreover it's running on a SSD now, and afaik reiser3fs doesn't support TRIM :( OK - thank you all. It seems I'll have to reformat. Bye, Daniel -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887&op=get # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887
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