I formated my 60gb harddrive with ext3 at 2 sectors a cluster (1024 bytes per inode). I didn't know it was going to have the same limitations as microsoft based partitions. so now I only have a "24gb hard drive". Is there any way for me to change the inode size without losing any of my data, so that I could use all of my 60gb drive? I'm running low on space. I figured if there was no other way, I could always copy everything off of it, format it, then copy everything back on. Hopefully I won't have to do that though, being as It's a laptop hd.

I'm running slackware 10 kernel 2.6.9 kde 3.2

AFAIK you can not change the number of inodes without losing data.

i think the right thing to say is "the size of inode"