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by Dylan16807 505 days ago
Super small drives are a special case for sure. You don't want to go below a certain number of inodes even on a 5GB root, but you also don't want to scale that up 50x on a 250GB root.
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starspangled 505 days ago
Why are super small drives a special case? It's still the same data to inode ratio.
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Dylan16807 505 days ago
There's a lot of small files that come with your typical OS install, going into the first handfuls of gigabytes.

When you add on another terabyte, the distribution is totally different. The files are much bigger.

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starspangled 504 days ago
Right, so it's entirely about usage rather than filesystem size.
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Dylan16807 504 days ago
Different sizes have different uses.
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