Re: [SLUG] inodes on reiserfs

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Feb 24 2006 - 13:10:02 EST

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Eben King wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Eben King wrote:
>
>> My /home needs smaller inodes:
>>
>> eben@pc:~$ df -i /dev/hda1
>> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda1 0 0 0 - /home
>> eben@pc:~$ df /dev/hda1
>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda1 2008024 1821756 186268 91% /home
>
> OK, apparently inodes aren't reported correctly on reiserfs. I have another
> reiserfs partition, and it shows the same thing. What can I use to get an
> accurate view? Or is there no solution, so the only way is to reformat to
> ext3 or whatever?
>
> Or does the concept of "inode" not apply to reiserfs?

I read http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/reiserfs.html and on the basis
of that and Ted Ts'o's reputation, reformatted /home ext3.

eben@pc:~$ df -i /dev/hda1
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 251392 8571 242821 4% /home
eben@pc:~$ df /dev/hda1
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 1976492 1842192 33896 99% /home

I _don't_ need smaller inodes (allocation blocks?); if anything, I could
probably save space with bigger ones. And ext3 is less efficient,
space-wise, than is reiserfs. 

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