On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:51 PM, John Wendel <jwende...@comcast.net> wrote: > I'm formatting a filesystem on a new 2TB disk. It will be used to store > video, so it will just contain a relatively few large files (200KB to 10GB). > So, worst case, i need 10000 inodes. > > First I used the option "-i 100000", this resulted in 20 million inodes in > the filesystem. > Next I used the option "-N 30000", this resulted in 238,000 inodes. > > Is the math broken in e2fsck, or am I doing something stupid? >
There is a lower limit to how far you can go. Using -N 30000 should have got you there. The last time I messed with it (5+ years ago) the limit was 4MB/inode and when you gave it an N value lower than that, you got the 4MB/inode value. It sounds like the limit is now 8MB/inode as that would give you about 238k inodes on around 2TB... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
