<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7638.1"> <TITLE>dealing with mke2fs -T option</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Hi, I have a doubt if I use the mke2fs option the right way. I formatted two different disks, one with $ mke2fs -b 4096 -E stride=16 -m 1 -T news /dev/sdd and the other with $ mke2fs -b 4096 -E stride=16 -m 1 -T largefile4 /dev/sde sdd is supposed to get files between 8k and 16k. sde will handle files with a fixed size of 32Mb. Then I tried this : $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mount-sdx/file bs=4k count=8192 for both /mount-sdd and /mount-sde My question is : when I do a "df", can see that 32Mb is used on each filesystems (which is what I expected from the dd) BUT doing a "df -i" to list the number of inodes used, I have 1 inode used on each filesystem too. Why don't I get "8192 inodes used" for sdd (1 inode / 4k) and "8 inodes used" for sde (1 inode / 4Mb) ? Thanks for your lights, Ionel </BODY> </HTML>