[svlug] no space

[Morten S. Nielsen]

On 16-03-2001 at 00:54, Aaron T Porter wrote:
> 
> 	Yes and no. Inodes are allocated when a filesystem is created
> 	based on a user supplied ratio. On most Linux installs, the
> 	default is 1 inode for each 4kb of disk space. So removing lots of
> 	small files will get you lots farther than deleting a few large
> 	ones. Unfortunately, there's no way to go back and allocate more
> 	inodes. If you intend on filling this partition up with more small
> 	files, you're going to need to reformat it.

One option could be to make a file to be mounted via loopback - eg. put
the manpages or maybe locale settings in a large file eg. 
/usr/man.filepartition and then mount this file via 
(make it by 
  dd if=/dev/zero of=man.filepartition bs=1024 count=<no of kB>"
  /sbin/mke2fs man.filepartition 
)

mount -o loop /usr/man.filepartition /usr/man 

or via. fstab:
/usr/man.filepartition /usr/man ext2 loop 1 1

I don't know which partition type could be the best for this purpose, but
it might be nice to be able to resize the file, but here I chose ext2.

I definately only would do it on non-essential data since not all kernels
have loopback support. Although it's just a question of recompilation of the 
kernel.

PS.: I messed up the reply so the mail went to Aaron Porter instead of the 
     list so it might be a little late answer...

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