[TriLUG] Failure Copying Large Amounts of Data

Ron Kelley rkelleyrtp at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 13:50:32 EDT 2010


That is exactly what I was thinking...

The only thing I can think of - the "mke2fs" command was run with the "-t largefile" option - which provides much less inodes than a standard "mke2fs" command.


-Ron



On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Glenn Hennessee wrote:

> Why did the first partition of the drive get 15,261,685 inodes and the second partition only get 238,592 inodes when they are roughly the same size? I'm assuming they were created/formated in the same way.
> glenn
> 
> Scott Lambdin wrote:
>> Tar them puppies up?  Then you won't use so many inodes.
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:58 AM, <boyle at laue.chem.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>>> On 16 Apr, Ron Kelley wrote:
>>>    
>>>> * What parameters did you use to create the filesystems on B: and C:
>>>>      
>>> Ack, I can't really remember.  Mostly the defaults.  I probably set the
>>> -m option to 1
>>> 
>>>    
>>>> * What does "fdisk -l" provide
>>>>      
>>> Here is the output for filesystem A (/dev/sdb1) and B and C (/dev/sdc1,
>>> /dev/sdc2):
>>> 
>>> Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
>>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
>>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>> Disk identifier: 0x0001c75d
>>> 
>>>  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>> /dev/sdb1   *           1       19457   156288321   83  Linux
>>> 
>>> Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
>>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
>>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>> Disk identifier: 0x1b645464
>>> 
>>>  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>> /dev/sdc1               1       30395   244147806   83  Linux
>>> /dev/sdc2           30396       60801   244236195   83  Linux
>>> bruker:/~% view /etc/fstab
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    
>>>> * what does "df -i" give you (assuming both B: and C: are mounted)
>>>>      
>>> Ack, here is where the problem becomes obvious:
>>> 
>>> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
>>> /dev/sda3             983040    7816  975224    1% /
>>> udev                  127601    1146  126455    1% /dev
>>> /dev/sda1             131072      49  131023    1% /boot
>>> /dev/sda9            5513216    2091 5511125    1% /home
>>> /dev/sda8             262144   18845  243299    8% /opt
>>> /dev/sda5            1310720  183510 1127210   15% /usr
>>> /dev/sda6            1310720   19481 1291239    2% /usr/local
>>> /dev/sda7             131072    2354  128718    2% /var
>>> /dev/sdb1            19546112  344096 19202016    2% /smb
>>> /dev/sdc1            15261696      11 15261685    1% /media/backup1
>>> /dev/sdc2             238592  238592       0  100% /media/backup2
>>> 
>>> /dev/sdb1 is "A", /dev/sdc2 is "B".
>>> 
>>> I guess I have to recreate the filesystems.  Any suggestions or tips?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Paul
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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> 
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