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Graham Daveney wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I bought a new disk the other day and when I formatted it with
> mke2fs I had to
> specify the "bytes per inode" for the partition.
>
> What I am in need of is a clarification as to what this actually
> means.
>
> For example if I specify the "bytes-per-inode" value as 2048 then
> what happens
> is that for every 2048 bytes on the disk an inode will be created.
>
> The disk was bought to be a news partition and if there are heaps
> and heaps of
> small files on the disk, then if there are not enough inodes on the
> partition
> there will reach a stage where no more files can be created.
>
> For each file created on the disk one inode is used, regardless of
> the size of
> the actual file.
>
> For example, using the above hypothetical situation. If I set the
> "bytes-per-inode"
> value to 2048, and then I filled the partition with millions of 1024
> byte files,
> then I would actually run out of inodes first before I ran out of
> disk space.
>
> Can someone please clarify this for me.
>
> Many Thanks
> Graham
> graham@daveney.matra.com.au

Yep, all your thaughts are spot on!!