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.
