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How to increase number of inode limits

Posted on February 8, 2015

I want to increase inode limits offered by my file extension (ext4) to store more number of files then currently allowed. How can I do that.



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mke2fs(8) tells us “it is not possible to expand the number of inodes on a filesystem after it is created”.

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