Re: Formatting large hard drives

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Use more blocks per inode when you format the filesystem. The inode table
is probably what is using up the 2 GB. I know I run out more quickly of
space than I do of inodes:

$ df -i
Filesystem           Inodes   IUsed   IFree  %IUsed Mounted on
/dev/sda3             180848   48901  131947    27%  /
/dev/sda5             263160   30483  232677    12%  /home
/dev/sda6             497664   41176  456488     8%  /opt
$ df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda3             699784  579642    83996     87%   /
/dev/sda5            1018298  805389   212909     79%   /home
/dev/sda6            1919114 1684801   234313     88%   /opt
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