On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 07:11:59PM -0700, john wendel wrote: > Subject: Question about mkfs.ext3 > From: john wendel <jwendel10@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:11:59 -0700 > Reply-To: "Community assistance, encouragement, > and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Delivered-To: niftyfedora@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Return-Path: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <49EA886F.1050802@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Sender: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > I'm formatting a new disk and running mkfs.ext3. I asked for 25000 > inodes with "-N 25000", but it gave me 118,272 inodes. > > What did I do wrong? How big is the device? What other info is generated -- block size, journal size, ...? Perhaps try a dry run with -n -v 25000 is a small number for the total number of files and dirs. The number of inodes must permit accessing the full disk at some point. I know that XFS will add inodes if it needs them but I do not know about ext3. Still it could be possible on a small enough device. I see on this box: $ df -i | egrep File\|boot Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda1 50200 41 50159 1% /boot $ df -h | egrep File\|boot Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 190M 22M 159M 12% /boot Since I have discarded USB keys bigger than this I wonder if 25000 is sane and you are hitting some internal sanity check. It also seems that there are more defaults and knobs than I knew... see /etc/mke2fs.conf Read about and try the "-T" flags... -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
