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From: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Newspool
Date: 29 May 1995 21:40:22 +1000
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In article <D975u6.JK9@luva.lb.bawue.de>,
Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de> wrote:
>...
>I gave the -i parameter to newfs because it's not true what the man
>page states (1 inode every 2k). In my case it created a fs with 1 inode
>every 4k which produced the famous "out of inodes" error message :-(

The man page lies.  The default is actually 1 inode per 4 fragments.  I
will fix the sources to match the man page.
-- 
Bruce Evans  bde@zeta.org.au