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From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Inodes
Date: 7 Nov 1995 00:10:02 GMT
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In article <47m0fp$93u@tracy.nacs.net>, damin@seka.nacs.net says...
>
>Hello all,
>        I am trying to format a 1.6 gig partition for news and would 
like 
>to know how to get the most inodes out of it?
>
>I've used the 'newfs -i 1024' command, but I still don't think I'm 
going 
>to have enough inodes. I should have over 1,000,000 but I have a little 
>under 700,000.
>
>Any thoughts?

  1024 should be plenty for inodes.  Average article size is actually 
higher than that (assuming that you carry alt.*)

  Make sure that you keep fragement sizes low too.

Tom