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From: "John P. Nelson" <jnelson@tristero.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Out of inodes
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:46:35 -0600
Organization: The Digital Design Company
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I may be mistaken, but I don't believe that you can increase the number 
of inodes without reformatting the drive..  :(

newfs -i 1024 /dev/sd2h
	^^-i = number of bytes per inode 
The more inodes you need, the smaller the -i number should be.

To check your inode status, execute df -i


On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Hank Sternberg wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've run out of inodes on a disk and I was wondering a) how to increase 
> the allocation or, b) what value to use in newfs to format the disk 
> with more allocations.
> 
> Thanks
> 
>