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dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=web.de header.s=dbaedf251592 header.b="FAa40Co/"; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=web.de (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of help-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=help-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 3396F21463 X-Spam-Score: -2.94 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com X-TUID: DrDoc0+eCvOG --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Vincent Legoll writes: > Hello, > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 7:58 PM Jaft via wrote: >> Heh, =E2=80=93 well =E2=80=93 I tried the large_dir suggestion in that t= hread and GRUB had >> the same freak-out (in retrospect, not surprising as the E-mails are onl= y from >> 2020; dunno why I thought I'd seen 2017, on first read=E2=80=A6). > > There's a "2017" mention in the thread referenced by Petr, maybe that's w= here > you saw it. > >> using a root partition of about 46G >> About 17 packages in, I started getting a "No space left on device" erro= r; >> looking closer at it, =E2=80=93 while I still had ~20% of free disk spac= e available =E2=80=93 >> I was fresh out of free inodes. > > If your problem is really being out of free inodes, I don't think the > "large_dir" > option is your solution, because it only increase the number of files per > directory limit, it does not increase the available number of inodes. > > Maybe you should manually create the filesystem with mke2fs and specify > a bigger number of inodes with its "-N" parameter. The small-filesystem option to mkfs.ext4 (-T small) could help, because it gives a higher fraction of inodes. This helps if you have very many small files. 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