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der_maddin
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 Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject: hard task, not enough files ? |
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i'm trying to install gentoo on a hppa system.
after i finally managed to get emerge working
(thanks to the changed profiles it took quite a while)
now i experience problems unpacking things
while emerging.
after some time emerge is running
(actually, i'm still trying to emerge hppa-sources)
tar starts shouting there was no file or directory
where it wants to extract to.
the message is like:
tar: [some dir/file or mkdir command] Cannot open: file or directory does'nt exist.
and in fact, observing things in /var/portage,
there is no directory named as the one tar wants to
dive into...
weird ?
a possible reason maybe a limited number of files,
fsck.ext3 tells me i do have ~ 209000 / 215936 files ...
if this is the reason for this weird behavior, how can i change it ??
i'm confused ...
[edit:]
Yes, after checking it twice, it seems like i'm running out of inodes ...
hmm, how should i get it running, if i can't even emerge the
sources ??
any suggestions what filesystem i should use ?
it's an old 2 GB scsi harddrive, 1.7G for /
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jmbsvicetto
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Hi.
Have you looked at the mkfs.ext3 man page?
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mke2fs - create an ext2/ext3 filesystem
SYNOPSIS
mke2fs [ -c | -l filename ] [ -b block-size ] [ -f fragment-size ] [ -g blocks-per-group ] [ -i bytes-per-inode ] [
-j ] [ -J journal-options ] [ -N number-of-inodes ] [ -n ] [ -m reserved-blocks-percentage ] [ -o creator-os ] [ -O
feature[,...] ] [ -q ] [ -r fs-revision-level ] [ -R raid-options ] [ -v ] [ -F ] [ -L volume-label ] [ -M last-
mounted-directory ] [ -S ] [ -T filesystem-type ] [ -V ] device [ blocks-count ]
mke2fs -O journal_dev [ -b block-size ] [ -L volume-label ] [ -n ] [ -q ] [ -v ] external-journal [ blocks-count ]
-b block-size
Specify the size of blocks in bytes. Valid block size vales are 1024, 2048 and 4096 bytes per block. If
omitted, mke2fs block-size is hueristically determined by the file system size and the expected usage of the
filesystem (see the -T option). If block-size is negative, then mke2fs will use hueristics to determine the
appropriate block size, with the constraint that the block size will be at least block-size bytes. This is
useful for certain hardware devices which require that the blocksize be a multiple of 2k.
-i bytes-per-inode
Specify the bytes/inode ratio. mke2fs creates an inode for every bytes-per-inode bytes of space on the disk.
The larger the bytes-per-inode ratio, the fewer inodes will be created. This value generally shouldn't be
smaller than the blocksize of the filesystem, since then too many inodes will be made. Be warned that is not
possible to expand the number of inodes on a filesystem after it is created, so be careful deciding the cor‐
rect value for this parameter.
-N number-of-inodes
overrides the default calculation of the number of inodes that should be reserved for the filesystem (which is
based on the number of blocks and the bytes-per-inode ratio). This allows the user to specify the number of
desired inodes directly.
-T fs-type
Specify how the filesystem is going to be used, so that mke2fs can chose optimal filesystem parameters for
that use. The supported filesystem types are:
news one inode per 4kb block
largefile one inode per megabyte
largefile4 one inode per 4 megabytes |
I think you will have to recreate your ext3 partition and imposing a minimum number of inodes to be created or perhaps use the -T news option. However, if you're getting out of inodes, how full is your disk? Do you think you'll be able to install into that disk?
Have you also considered using other filesystem? I think that reiserfs might be able to define the number of inodes dinamically and doubt if jfs or xfs will have such limits. On the other hand, I don't know if thinking about another filesystem is secondary to thinking about a new disk.
Hope this helps.
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der_maddin
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:27 am Post subject: |
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thanks for the reply.
no, i won't be able to use another disk.
as you may have noticed, the system is
a hp 712/60, hppa architecture.
so the only disk i've got here that would
run in that system is the 2G disk i'm using.
but i did solve the inodes problem for now
by cleaning up /var/tmp/portage
(had some files in there no longer needed)
so i could emerge the kernel-sources and still
have some ( ~ 50.000 ) inodes free.
my aim would be to
- compile a kernel
- install grub, system logger, cron, whatever
- emerge samba
if i could succeed in emerging samba i plan to
move some of the disks contents
(esp. the /usr/portage tree )
to a samba share.
still i'm interested in getting to know if
it would be possible to
- change inodes of exisiting filesystem without loosing the data
- convert filesystem to maybe reiserFS without loosing the data
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pilla
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from IG.
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HPRichard
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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Out of my experience with Microsoft filesystems in Linux I do not believe in moving /usr/portage to a smb share being a good idea, I very often had problems with the access rights and file ownerships, no idea if this went better with recent samba versions.
I believe that using NFS is the much better option. A friend of mine is on the way of installing a diskless Gecko (712/60) using only NFS, at the moment he is working through the TFTP things. But as you have a disk, you can use palo, which should be much easier. If you want to use /usr/portage via NFS, you can even share the same directory across multiple machines, even when they have different architectures, there are some threads explaining this. This yields in you having to only once for all machines, and you only have to on all the other machines.
But again, there are other threads explaining this much better. |
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