--cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:40:47AM -0800, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R wr= ote: > Dr. Tweedie, et al.: >=20 > In the instant case, I am creating a filesystem for /home > directories, thus, a 5% reservation for root is not needed here, so I > shall take your advice and return it to the general free space pool. That's probably not a good idea. The space is used as a buffer against filling filesystems completely, and also as a way to significantly reduce fragmentation. I would leave it at 5% if I were you. =20 > Why cannot ext2/ext3 allocate inode space on a dynamic basis? Not quite certain about that. If you want a good filesystem for handling large files that also dynamically allocates inodes, I would try SGI XFS. You can download the kernel patches from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs. > More importantly why is it not possible to amend the number of > inodes an ext2/ext3 filesystem has after the point of doing an mke2fs? That requires changing very sensitive data, and could easily result in data corruption. You'd also increase fragmentation. =20 > One other question, as well: >=20 > I modified my RedHat installation to boot up using a root > filesystem of ReiserFS, but when I try to use devfs=3Dmount along with an > initrd, it seems to give me some errors (initrd=3D something or other > error, I will write it down next time). Any ideas? I will need to see the error first. =20 > What command do I give to tune2fs to change the space > reservation percentage? man tune2fs(8) reveals the -m switch. > Also, I noticed that if I turn on ext3 journaling, I can no > longer resize the partition with partition magic. So I am curious, how I > can completely revert an ext3 partition back to ext2 (temporarily) so I > can resize it, and then make it ext3 again. Is there a command line > parameter for tune2fs which will reverse a "tune2fs -j"? All you have to do is delete the .journal file in the root of the filesystem. Note the root of the filesystem, and not the root directory. =20 --=20 -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@attglobal.net) --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8XyiUnMU1m27tfjARAo5eAJ9yCp2GR5hh302FCc9L56U+By3ciQCgoJJq yOY99MQAGrt6SGzecO7RE8w= =lvya -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM--
