Ok, currently tarballing and reading the man pages as we speak :-P Thanks a lot for the tremendous help,
Laurent ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:09 PM Subject: Re: Trouble copying a large number of files to last ext2 partition > > check out the tune2fs program, but you can't change the number of > inodes with this program. the reserved space can be, though. > > tar the files up and compress them "cd tar Icf /tmp/tarball.bz ." > > you can just put the tar file on the hfs partition, but you might be > better off just sticking it somewhere safer while you re-mkfs the > partition. use the -v flag of mkfs to check how many inodes it is > creating, etc. you only need to store the tar file until you finish > this step and then untar in onto the new file system. you don't > have to untar that file until then. it all only takes a couple of > minutes. > > read the man page for tune2fs (e2fsprogs package). > > a > > > Laurent de Segur wrote: > > > > Andrew, > > > > Thanks for your nice feedback. This is extremelly helpful. > > > > Is it possible to change anything on the current partition without > > reformatting it or am I just doomed to tarball all the content, move it > > somewhere else (I can always zap my macos 9 partition I haven't touched for > > months...) and then mkfs, then restore files? It would be nice if I can > > change reserved space and goof with inode stuff without doing that though. > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > > Laurent > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Andrew Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> > > Cc: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> > > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:59 AM > > Subject: Re: Trouble copying a large number of files to last ext2 partition > > > > > Laurent de Segur wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I run into this bizarre problem trying to copy a large amount of files > > to > > > > the last partition on my disk. The disk is 10GB and the last partition > > > > occupies the last 1GB of the disk (minus a few extra spare sectors.) > > > > > > > > I did an fschk on the partition and no problem is reported. > > > > > > > > I've got a compressed zip file with about 30000 files I want to > > uncompress. > > > > I know that the uncompressed size will end up filling the 1GB partition > > to > > > > about 90%. > > > > > > > > If I unzip the file located on the same partition I get an error message > > > > (can't create the file on device) for a few dozens files then the copy > > will > > > > stop. At that point the disk is full at about 87%. > > > > > > You can make the filesystem with a set percentage set aside for root > > > so that the filesystem doesn't get all screwed up when it gets > > > full-ish. Actually getting completely full is a bad thing. So set > > > the percentage to 1 thusly: > > > > > > mkfs -m 1 /dev/<slice> > > > > > > Remember that other things consume space on the slice: inodes, > > > directories, directory entries, block indirects, and so on. So just > > > 'cuz the slice is 1GB and the uncompressed size of the files is 90% > > > of that is no guarantee that they will fit. You could also mess > > > with the number of bytes per inode to get the number of inodes to be > > > very close to what you want, thus saving space by not having a large > > > number of inodes unused. > > > > > > a > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
