Re: [opensuse] Problem with inodes on SuSE 12.1 and /var ?

Von: Anton Aylward An: opensuse@opensuse.org Betreff: Re: [opensuse] Problem with inodes on SuSE 12.1 and /var ?

Markus Egg said the following on 02/06/2013 09:11 AM:

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Hello,

I had SuSE 10.3 installed on my laptop. Backup of /var/spool/news onto some NAS was ok.

Then formatted swap (swap filesys), / (ext4 filesys) /var (ext4 filesys) in the same size it was before. No other special settings,

*THAT* was your mistake. The 'defaults' are 'general purpose'. 'News' has specific needs.

I assumed that this was the mistake. I remembered that there were issues mentioned in the documentation of SuSE 10.3 and I thought that SuSE 12.1 takes care of that, but it did not. :-( [...]

*MY* "solution' is not to use an ext file system. I use ReiserFS which is dynamic about its allocation. There are no fixed numbers of inodes. This is how things *should* be, in MNSHO. You should not be tied down to having to get your initialization parameters right. This is also why I use LVM - I don't want to have to get the size of the partition and FS 'right' to start with!

I thought of the following solution: 1) save fstab somewhere 2) rm the usenet part in /var/spool/news 3) tar the rest of /var somewhere else (e.g. some external USB-disk) 4) use gparted to reboot into the gparted system and then reformat /var with reiserfs. 5) play back the /var content onto the new reiser-var 6) mount /etc with the gparted system 7) But what do I have to enter into the /etc/fstab manually afterwards? Put the fstab onto /etc 8) if 7) is done reboot to SuSE 12.1 9) transfer the /var/spool/news onto the new /var under SuSE 12.1 Is that feasible? I already did some 200GB -> 500GB enlargements with gparted and SuSE 10.3 . It was tricky but it worked. I just want to avoid to start all over again... :-/ Thanks in advance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org