498580 – insufficient inodes on 5GB root partition

Bug 498580 - insufficient inodes on 5GB root partition

Summary: insufficient inodes on 5GB root partition

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2014-01-19 15:57 UTC by Jarry
Modified:	2014-01-23 19:16 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Jarry 2014-01-19 15:57:37 UTC

4.e. Creating Filesystems

"...If you intend to install Gentoo on a very small disk (less than 4GB), then you'll need to tell ext2, ext3 or ext4 (if available) to reserve enough inodes when you create the filesystem..."

Well, this is still rather optimistic. I tried to install Gentoo on 5GB root partition today. I was under 4GB-limit so I skipped that "small" parameter and ran out of inodes while doing emerge-webrsync (6.b. Configuring Portage). All ~317k Inodes used (but only ~49% of capacity). 

I suggest to change that text in Installation Guide to "less than 6GB". Or maybe even more...

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-01-23 19:16:22 UTC

Thanks. I've updated it in CVS to 8 Gb, which should show up on the site in an hour or so.