Huge Partition

Steve Wampler swampler at noao.edu
Thu Apr 22 18:49:08 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 11:46, Martin Stone wrote:

> Inodes also take up space.  If you have 2048 GB raw partition, and want one 
> inode every 32K, and eack inode takes up one 1K-block, you have 32 inodes/MB * 
> 1024 MB/GB * 2048 GB ==> 67108864 Kbytes = 65536 MB = 64 GB used up just by your 
> inodes.

Holy smokes - are inodes really up to 1K each?  Now I *really* feel
old...

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Steve Wampler -- swampler at noao.edu
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