[SunRescue] [OT] 1gig IDE needed...

[Eli Bottrell]

Mike,

        I don't know if you did this already or not, but there is a flag to set
the percentage of disk space on an e2fs partition that is reserved for root.
IIRC, it's -m. You should set this to 0 if your just using it as a place to
dump to. You should be able to get close to the full disk capacity with this
and less inodes.


        - Eli Bottrell

Mike Hebel wrote:

> Thanks!  I'm going to look all this up when I get home and re-format the
> drive at least one more time.
>
> Mike Hebel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Kurt Mosiejczuk
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:43 PM
> To: Rescue at Sunhelp. Org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] [OT] 1gig IDE needed...
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Mike Hebel wrote:
>
> > I need an .iso dump drive for my Linux ATAPI burner system and the 710meg
> is
> > just a little too small when formatted.  (Figure that one out - I go from
> a
> > 710meg to a 650meg after formatting as ext2 with SUSE 6.4.  What a loss!)
> > You'd think I'd have something this size just sitting around wouldn't
> > you...NOPE! It figures...
>
> Might I make a suggestion?  Well, too bad, I will anyway =)
>
> Don't use the default mke2fs command to make the filesystem.
> If you want I can look up the exact syntax (I don't recall off the
> top of my head), but basically you want to severely reduce the
> inodes per cylinder group.  The default assumes the potential of
> LOTS of small files.  Whereas you'll be using the filesystem for
> essentially one BIG file, you don't need lots of inodes.  It can
> make a HUGE difference.
>
> --Kurt
>
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