inodes, customizing partitions

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	inodes, customizing partitions
Date	2025-10-10 09:45 +0200
Message-ID	<45qmrlx6oh.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
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On 2025-10-09 17:07, Rich wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 08/10/2025 22:29, John Ames wrote:
>>> On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 21:13:01 -0000 (UTC)
>>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Having a separate partition with a (vaguely) well-organized
>>>>> directory structure ...
>>>>
>>>> You can have the latter without the former. Remember, *nix systems
>>>> maintain a single directory hierarchy, regardless of how the storage
>>>> may actually be partitioned into separate volumes.
>>>
>>> Certainly, but keeping it separate allows for some fine-tuning (e.g.
>>> picking a larger inode size for a partition where small files will be
>>> the exception rather than the rule.)
>>>
>> Crikey, how long has THAT been an issue.
> 
> It /effectively/ ceased being an issue somewhere around about the
> latter ext3 or early ext4 filesystem days.  Except for *very* unsusal
> usage patterns (i.e., Usenet NNTP spools stored as files directly in
> the filesystem) it is no longer something anyone thinks about anymore.
> Yes, there's a "limit", but much like with "64-bit memory space" the
> limit is so large it is all but near impossible to actually hit it
> anymore.
> 
> A quick check here with 'df -i' shows all but one mounted filesystem in
> the single digit percentage usage of inodes.  The one 'worst' case (a
> 4T disk for media encoding/transcoding and other misc usages) is only
> consuming 17% of its max inodes.

Telcontar:~ # df -i
Filesystem                         Inodes   IUsed      IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p5                    9830400 2135223    7695177   22% /
...
/dev/sdc9                        16777216 1632362   15144854   10% /data/WasReiserfs		(holds the news spool)
...
/dev/sdb10                       15295056  943965   14351091    7% /data/storage_b
/dev/sdc10                        2621440  131132    2490308    6% /usr/local
...



-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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