On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 07:05:24PM -0600, Michael Jinks wrote: > Once you have /var backed up, check into the mke2fs manpage. There > might not be an option for tuning a filesystem in the standard debian > install but it shouldn't be too hard to format your /dev/hda3 by hand > instead of having the installation scripts do it for you.
Many thanks, this is how I did it : 1. backed up /var with tar 2. init 1 3. umount /var 4. mke2fs -i 1024 /var 5. put the tar back to /var 6. reboot and tested. now 'df -i' : before : /dev/hda3 977280 21750 955530 2% /var after : /dev/hda3 1966080 287418 1678662 15% /var As a matter of interest, tar has the '-T news' option which creates a file system with 'one inode per 4kb block', however, the above '-i 1024 doubles' that. -- Darren Wyn Rees
