RE: [Cooker] Formating partition
Is it absolutely necessary for you to sleep??? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pixel > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 7:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Formating partition > > > "Thomas M. Beaudry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How about making it an option in the Expert install? > > > > planned to add a dialog box asking the different available > options. Alas... > wondering if i'll find the time ;-) >
Re: [Cooker] Formating partition
"Thomas M. Beaudry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about making it an option in the Expert install? > planned to add a dialog box asking the different available options. Alas... wondering if i'll find the time ;-)
RE: [Cooker] Formating partition
How about making it an option in the Expert install? > -Original Message- > > Sylvain Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In older Mandrake, ext2 partitions were formated with default option. > > Should it still be the case, the formating options may be changed with > > enabling Superblock > > you mean sparse superblock? the default option is ok > > > and reducing the number of inode. > > > > > > some numbers: > > (root@kenobi)[/]-# for i in $(perl -ane 'print "$F[3]\n" if > /^\s/' /proc/partitions); do /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/$i 2>/dev/null | > grep -e "Inode count" -e "^Free inodes:"; done > Inode count: 40320 > Free inodes: 36825 > Inode count: 1904640 > Free inodes: 1522509 > Inode count: 223232 > Free inodes: 164544 > Inode count: 2000 > Free inodes: 1970 > Inode count: 185088 > Free inodes: 185077 > Inode count: 2072640 > Free inodes: 2031702 > > pixel@leia:/>for i in $(perl -ane 'print "$F[3]\n" if /^\s/' > /proc/partitions); do /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/$i 2>/dev/null | grep > -e "Inode count" -e "^Free inodes:"; done > Inode count: 26104 > Free inodes: 18422 > Inode count: 128520 > Free inodes: 98794 > Inode count: 127744 > Free inodes: 86967 > Inode count: 97536 > Free inodes: 96061 > Inode count: 155040 > Free inodes: 154260 > Inode count: 359744 > Free inodes: 359644 > > using this number, we can say reducing by half the number of > inodes is safe. Or > am i missing something? > >
Re: [Cooker] Formating partition
Sylvain Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In older Mandrake, ext2 partitions were formated with default option. > Should it still be the case, the formating options may be changed with > enabling Superblock you mean sparse superblock? the default option is ok > and reducing the number of inode. > some numbers: (root@kenobi)[/]-# for i in $(perl -ane 'print "$F[3]\n" if /^\s/' /proc/partitions); do /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/$i 2>/dev/null | grep -e "Inode count" -e "^Free inodes:"; done Inode count: 40320 Free inodes: 36825 Inode count: 1904640 Free inodes: 1522509 Inode count: 223232 Free inodes: 164544 Inode count: 2000 Free inodes: 1970 Inode count: 185088 Free inodes: 185077 Inode count: 2072640 Free inodes: 2031702 pixel@leia:/>for i in $(perl -ane 'print "$F[3]\n" if /^\s/' /proc/partitions); do /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/$i 2>/dev/null | grep -e "Inode count" -e "^Free inodes:"; done Inode count: 26104 Free inodes: 18422 Inode count: 128520 Free inodes: 98794 Inode count: 127744 Free inodes: 86967 Inode count: 97536 Free inodes: 96061 Inode count: 155040 Free inodes: 154260 Inode count: 359744 Free inodes: 359644 using this number, we can say reducing by half the number of inodes is safe. Or am i missing something?
Re: [Cooker] Formating partition
Sylvain Vignaud wrote: > > In older Mandrake, ext2 partitions were formated with default option. > Should it still be the case, the formating options may be changed with > enabling Superblock and reducing the number of inode. > > For exemple I have one 1Go partition formated during an installation, > and a 2Go partition reformated with the above options. Running > fsck.ext2) is FAR faster on the 2Go partition (10-20s maybe) than on the > 1Go standard-formated partition. already did by default by last mke2fs !! -- www.linux-mandrake.com somewhere between the playstation and the craystation Thierry
