Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> you described.  The man page doesn't tell us what the default value is,
> but the Arch wiki says it's one inode per 16384 bytes.
> <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ext4#Bytes-per-inode_ratio>
> Since the default inode size is 256 bytes, that tells us the inodes
> take about 1.5% of the space by default.

I wasn't confusing with the `-m` reserve, but indeed my recollection was
more pessimistic than the reality.  Thanks for the correction.

So it's only worth fiddling with this if either:
- your average file size (rounded up to blocks) is smaller than 16384.
  (this could happen if you use the filesystem for something like
  maildir mailboxes).
- You care about getting the last percent of your disk space.


        Stefan