Bill Cole wrote: > At 6:23 PM +0300 11/17/07, Nikolay Shopik wrote: >> On 17.11.2007 18:11, Nikolay Shopik wrote: >>> On 17.11.2007 17:56, Bazy wrote: > > [...] > >>>> Yes, that's what I meant. Run out of inodes on that partition. >>>> >>> I don't think so. >>> If /V/ is the volume size in bytes, then the default number of inodes >>> is given by /V//2^13 >>> That's more than enough. >>> >> should look like this - V/2^13 > > Another way to express that: if your average file size is less than 8KB, > you will run out of inodes before you run out of disk space. This would > present a real risk for file-per-message mailstores, since most email > messages are significantly smaller that 8KB. > > The bytes per inode value is something that can be selected when > creating a filesystem, and different OS's and filesystems have different > defaults. Whether a particular filesystem is headed for inode exhaustion > really depends on how it was created and all of its contents. > > >
I understand... I should read mode about this. I had dovecot with mbox and mbox is not very fast... my hard drive would seeeeeeek before it could load a mail. I only use imap. Not to mention when i search all my mail for something in the body of the message. I use mozilla's thunderbird. Yes, maybe 95% of the mail is less then 8KB, but as df -i said, I have a lot of free inodes. :) [root:pts/0][~]# df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda1 19281504 140795 19140709 1% / Thank you for all your answers!
