Re: Trouble copying a large number of files to last ext2 partition
Ok, currently tarballing and reading the man pages as we speak :-P
Thanks a lot for the tremendous help,
Laurent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Sharp" <andy@netfall.com>
To: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: Trouble copying a large number of files to last ext2 partition
>
> check out the tune2fs program, but you can't change the number of
> inodes with this program. the reserved space can be, though.
>
> tar the files up and compress them "cd tar Icf /tmp/tarball.bz ."
>
> you can just put the tar file on the hfs partition, but you might be
> better off just sticking it somewhere safer while you re-mkfs the
> partition. use the -v flag of mkfs to check how many inodes it is
> creating, etc. you only need to store the tar file until you finish
> this step and then untar in onto the new file system. you don't
> have to untar that file until then. it all only takes a couple of
> minutes.
>
> read the man page for tune2fs (e2fsprogs package).
>
> a
>
>
> Laurent de Segur wrote:
> >
> > Andrew,
> >
> > Thanks for your nice feedback. This is extremelly helpful.
> >
> > Is it possible to change anything on the current partition without
> > reformatting it or am I just doomed to tarball all the content, move it
> > somewhere else (I can always zap my macos 9 partition I haven't touched
for
> > months...) and then mkfs, then restore files? It would be nice if I can
> > change reserved space and goof with inode stuff without doing that
though.
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > Laurent
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Sharp" <andy@netfall.com>
> > To: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
> > Cc: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:59 AM
> > Subject: Re: Trouble copying a large number of files to last ext2
partition
> >
> > > Laurent de Segur wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I run into this bizarre problem trying to copy a large amount of
files
> > to
> > > > the last partition on my disk. The disk is 10GB and the last
partition
> > > > occupies the last 1GB of the disk (minus a few extra spare sectors.)
> > > >
> > > > I did an fschk on the partition and no problem is reported.
> > > >
> > > > I've got a compressed zip file with about 30000 files I want to
> > uncompress.
> > > > I know that the uncompressed size will end up filling the 1GB
partition
> > to
> > > > about 90%.
> > > >
> > > > If I unzip the file located on the same partition I get an error
message
> > > > (can't create the file on device) for a few dozens files then the
copy
> > will
> > > > stop. At that point the disk is full at about 87%.
> > >
> > > You can make the filesystem with a set percentage set aside for root
> > > so that the filesystem doesn't get all screwed up when it gets
> > > full-ish. Actually getting completely full is a bad thing. So set
> > > the percentage to 1 thusly:
> > >
> > > mkfs -m 1 /dev/<slice>
> > >
> > > Remember that other things consume space on the slice: inodes,
> > > directories, directory entries, block indirects, and so on. So just
> > > 'cuz the slice is 1GB and the uncompressed size of the files is 90%
> > > of that is no guarantee that they will fit. You could also mess
> > > with the number of bytes per inode to get the number of inodes to be
> > > very close to what you want, thus saving space by not having a large
> > > number of inodes unused.
> > >
> > > a
> > >
> > >
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