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+#!/bin/sh
+
+dir="$1"
+dev="$2"
+
+if [ "$1" = "--help" ] || [ ! -d "${dir}" ]; then
+	echo "Usage: $0 dir [mke2fs args] dev"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+shift
+
+# Goal: Put all the files at the beginning (which mke2fs does) and minimize
+# the number of free inodes given the minimum number of blocks required.
+# Hence all this math to get the inode ratio just right.
+
+bytes="$(du -ks "${dir}" | awk '{print $1}')"
+bytes="$((bytes * 1024))"
+inodes="$(find "${dir}" -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c '%i' | sort -g | uniq | wc -l)"
+block_sz=4096
+inode_sz=256
+sb_overhead=4096
+blocks_per_group="$((block_sz * 8))"
+bytes_per_group="$((blocks_per_group * block_sz))"
+inode_bytes="$((inodes * inode_sz))"
+
+# Estimate overhead with the minimum number of groups...
+nr_groups="$(( (bytes + inode_bytes + bytes_per_group - 1) / bytes_per_group))"
+inode_bytes_per_group="$((inode_bytes / nr_groups))"
+inode_blocks_per_group="$(( (inode_bytes_per_group + (block_sz - 1)) / block_sz ))"
+per_grp_overhead="$(( ((3 + inode_blocks_per_group) * block_sz) + 64 ))"
+overhead="$(( sb_overhead + (per_grp_overhead * nr_groups) ))"
+used_bytes="$((bytes + overhead))"
+
+# Then do it again with the real number of groups.
+nr_groups="$(( (used_bytes + (bytes_per_group - 1)) / bytes_per_group))"
+tot_blocks="$((nr_groups * blocks_per_group))"
+tot_bytes="$((tot_blocks * block_sz))"
+
+ratio="$((bytes / inodes))"
+mkfs_blocks="$((tot_blocks * 4 / 3))"
+
+mke2fs -i "${ratio}" -T ext4 -d "${dir}" -O ^resize_inode,sparse_super2,metadata_csum,64bit,^has_journal -E packed_meta_blocks=1,num_backup_sb=0 -b "${block_sz}" -I "${inodesz}" -F "${dev}" "${mkfs_blocks}" || exit
+
+e2fsck -fyD "${dev}"
+
+blocks="$(dumpe2fs -h "${dev}" 2>&1 | grep 'Block count:' | awk '{print $3}')"
+while resize2fs -f -M "${dev}"; do
+	new_blocks="$(dumpe2fs -h "${dev}" 2>&1 | grep 'Block count:' | awk '{print $3}')"
+	if [ "${new_blocks}" -eq "${blocks}" ]; then
+		break;
+	fi
+	blocks="${new_blocks}"
+done
+
+if [ ! -b "${dev}" ]; then
+    truncate -s "$((blocks * block_sz))" "${dev}" || (e2image -ar "${dev}" "${dev}.min"; mv "${dev}.min" "${dev}")
+fi
+
+e2fsck -fy "${dev}"
+
+dir_blocks="$((bytes / block_sz))"
+overhead="$((blocks - dir_blocks))"
+echo "Minimized image overhead: $((100 * overhead / dir_blocks))%"
+
+exit 0