[SOLVED] Increase inode on /

amolmistry · 08-03-2012, 12:43 PM

Hello Guys,

Can anybody tell me, how do I increase inode on partition /

It is ext2 partition as follows.

/dev/sda5 655360 655360 0 100% /
tmpfs 1006599 1 1006598 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 26208 46 26162 1% /boot
/dev/sda8 23986176 2464271 21521905 11% /home
/dev/sda7 65536 447 65089 1% /tmp
/dev/sda2 1310720 172084 1138636 14% /usr
/dev/sda3 1310720 36745 1273975 3% /var
/dev/sdb1 27459584 2435877 25023707 9% /home2

syg00 · 08-03-2012, 09:45 PM

I don't believe you can - that is set at mkfs time.

amolmistry · 08-03-2012, 10:29 PM

Hello.

Thanks syg00, is it possible if I unmount / in single user mode and increase inode?

If yes, how?

Thanks.

syg00 · 08-04-2012, 12:20 AM

You can't unmount the root.
If you could enlarge the filesystem (after enlarging the partition first of course), you will get more inodes. Best would be to back it up and reformat - maybe try ext4 - then restore.

That's a lot of used inodes - do you have masses of small files ?. Can you simply clean up some ?.

amolmistry · 08-04-2012, 02:12 AM

Thanks syg00, I also thought the same with ext4 re-formation of hdd, but was hopping for any alternate option without Re formatting hdd,

But thanks for your valuable help so far

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

You can't unmount the root.
If you could enlarge the filesystem (after enlarging the partition first of course), you will get more inodes. Best would be to back it up and reformat - maybe try ext4 - then restore.

That's a lot of used inodes - do you have masses of small files ?. Can you simply clean up some ?.