Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD
On Mon 26 Aug 2019 at 14:23:39 (-0400), rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:20:13 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > The "bytes-per-inode" value ("-i" option) is the closest match to what
> > 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>
>
> Ahh, that's a useful figure (to me, anyway -- I'm not the OP)-- I guess if I
> wanted to try to optimize, I could see what the average size of my files is (or
> might be), and then adjust that ratio to match to about one inode per file. OF
> course, I'm ignoring things like directories and hard linked files.
George, don't do that :)
Cheers,
David.
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