From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <19991130202147.20629@primate.wisc.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:21:47 -0600 From: Paul DuBois To: Jon Howell , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: installer default inode count References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Jon Howell on Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 08:15:28PM -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 08:15:28PM -0500, Jon Howell wrote: > I recently installed LinuxPPC 1999 Q3, and today I ran out of inodes. > My 3G disk is only 67% full. It turns out my inode ratio is about > one inode per 32KB. The default for mk2efs is 4KB (-i 4096). > 32KB seems extreme. Indeed, I see from the mailing list archive > that someone else ran into the same problem in September > (http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-dev/199911/msg00047.html). This happened to me a couple of weeks ago, and the problem went away when I reduced the size of the affected partition to be less than 2GB. I assumed that perhaps some integer overflow problem occurred in the math that computes the number of inodes, because that number was ridiculously low. > Hollis' reply hints that the installer does this on purpose, but > I couldn't tell for sure. Could whoever maintains the installer look > into changing the inode ratio to something lower, or is the 32KB ratio > intentional (but unfortunate)? ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/