On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:45:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. My experience when I was playing with Gentoo on a 2GB USB stick was that fragmenting the device was a BAD idea, a much more efficient trick is reducing the block size to 1k. This reduces the portage tree size massively, and increases the number of inodes a lot, as inodes are allocated proportional to the number of blocks. YMMV, Rob. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
