On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 20:22, Chris wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks, but that's not the problem I'm having. My problem is copying a > bunch of files (ALL smaller than 2GB) totalling 46GB at the source (servers > running SCSI RAID drives) to RH9 running on IDE drives. It seems that what > takes 46GB on the SCSI drives will not "fit" on a single 120GB IDE drive, > since the blocks appear to be much larger and even the smallest files > probably take 64KB if not more. I just need to figure out a way, if it's at > all possible, to reformat the IDE drives with smaller blocks, say maybe 1K, > 4K, or something smaller than the default, so that I can copy 46GB from > remote SCSI drives to IDE drives, for backup purposes, and have it take > approximately 46GB on the IDE end of things. It seems now like you need > about 160GB worth of disk space on IDE drives to copy just 46GB worth of > files from SCSI drives. Complete waste of resources and utilization of the > IDE drives, as the data more than "tripples" in size. When your drive "fills up", do a 'df -i' to list the available inodes. Perhaps you've run out? > Anyone has any ideas how to reformat an IDE drive with smaller blocks than > whatever the default might be, and is it safe to do so? Any caveats? Check out the mke2fs manpage. Search through for all the "block" and "inode" options. -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
