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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Prob w/ WD 1 gig Drive and FreeBSD 2.0R
Date: 16 Feb 1995 11:58:26 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3htjrf$t0m@earth.usa.net>, Scotty bethke <kbethke@earth> wrote:
>Ive come upon a strange error with the FreeBSD-RELEASE 2.0 and my Western 
>DIgital 1 Gig IDE drive (WDC3100).
>
>The drive fills to about 78% and I get this error from the kernel:
>
>Feb 15 13:57:27 news kernel: uid 0 on /var/spool/news: out of inodes
>Feb 15 13:57:27 news last message repeated 4 times

Yeah, the key phrase there is /var/spool/news! ;-)

It's not an error - you didn't create the news partition with enough
inodes as a percentage of free space.

Poul, make a note - we need to expose this somehow in the 2.1 install.
Maybe if it sees a partition named /var, it says "are you going to be
using this partition for storing news?" :-)

					Jordan