Running Out of Inodes

[Jaft via <help-guix@gnu.org>]

Hey, hey.
It could very well be my own ignorance about things but I'm running into an issue that I wouldn't think I'd run into so naïvely; if there's any further light to be shed, I very much appreciate it.
I wanted to try out Guix so I installed it to a laptop I have; the previous distro I had on there had been using a root partition of about 46G so I just decided to keep the same partition setup (though reformatting each one).
About 17 packages in, I started getting a "No space left on device" error; looking closer at it, – while I still had ~20% of free disk space available – I was fresh out of free inodes. I remembered that someone I'd read, somewhere, had said you'd probably want, at least, 50G for Guix so I figured I probably shot myself in the foot with so small a root and just opted to reinstall.
This time, I deleted the home partition and the root one to create one 156G partition for the entire install and figured that'd be sufficient (I've been using ext4 for these, in case that information is relevant, any).
This time, though, I managed 21 packages before running into the same issue.
There's still 70% of the disk space free but I'm entirely out of free inodes; leastwise, I was but I tried a guix gc, just to see what all got freed up, and, now, I have 5% of all inodes free.
Is this relatively typical? I figured I hadn't done anything particularly out of ordinary usage (Guix's new to me so I literally just did an install and then started installing packages from the gnu channel).
Let me know if there's any further or more particular info. to include, if that'd help; I just wouldn't know what to provide.
Thanks!
Jonathan