On Friday 11 July 2008, Miernik wrote: > I installed Gentoo using the handbook, and the root partition has > 4094951424 bytes (a 4 GB USB pendrive), and "mke2fs -j /dev/sda2" as > on > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap= >4#doc_chap4 created me a partition with only 249984 inodes. That was > REALLY SILLY of him, because: > > przehyba ~ # df -i /dev/sda2 > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 249984 249739 245 100% / > przehyba ~ #
Actually it's really silly of you to have done that for a gentoo root partition. You have 16k per inode on average, much more than enough for normal purposes so it's a sane default for ext2/ext3. I'll bet your problem is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ find /var/portage/ | wc 143970 143970 7612245 That 65% of your inodes consumed right there in a required directory structure. If so, easiest way out is to boot off a LiveCD, get access to the pendrive and reduce it by about 350M or so. Create a new filesystem in that space, mount it to $PORTDIR and move your portage tree to it. Someone else will need to confirm how big PORTDIR is on ext2/ext3, as mine isn't. Also make sure distfiles is also a separate filesystem. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
