<!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>RE : dealing with mke2fs -T option</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  OK. But as stated in the mke2fs man page, the -T option is for 1 inode per X bytes. Except a lower number of available inodes, if 1 file == 1 inode whatever the -T option used, what is this option for ? Ionel -------- Message d'origine-------- De: Bryan Kadzban [<A HREF="mailto:bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net">mailto:bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net</A>] Date: dim. 27/05/2007 14:04 À: GARDAIS Ionel Cc: ext3-users@redhat.com Objet : Re: dealing with mke2fs -T option GARDAIS Ionel wrote: > Then I tried this : > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mount-sdx/file bs=4k count=8192 > for both /mount-sdd and /mount-sde > > Why don't I get "8192 inodes used" Because the FS creates one inode per file (unless you create a hard link, anyway), not one inode per X bytes. You only created one file here. ;-) </BODY> </HTML>