Re: Formatting large hard drives

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

 : 
 : 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

This is good advice IF you're going to be storing medium to large sized
files.  If you're going to have lots of little file (news spool) then
you should do the opposite.

I suspect what's really happened is that the "used up" space is the 5%
reserved for the superuser.  RTFM `man mke2fs' to see how to change the
reserved amount, the block size, and other fun stuff.

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