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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!io.org!van-bc!uniserve!usenet 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 Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <47m84q$gqq@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <47m0fp$93u@tracy.nacs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tapehost.uniserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 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