[SOLVED] Increasing number of inodes without re-creating the partition
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You can't. If you read the man page for mkfs.ext3 and mkfs.ext4 you'll see the following in both:
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Be warned that it is not possible to expand the number of inodes on a filesystem after it is created, so be careful deciding the correct value for this parameter.
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