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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.eas.asu.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!quanta.com!rsww From: rsww@quanta.com (Ross Walker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help News Server out of Inodes :( Date: 31 Jan 1996 16:36:48 GMT Organization: Quanta Communications, Inc. Lines: 51 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4eo5r0$jss@news.quanta.com> References: <4em5f2$6vo@nntp.interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: quanta.quanta.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tombstone (stone@flowbee.interaccess.com) wrote: : My news server is staring me in the face right now telling me "yup" : I'm at 72% storage capacity and 90% inode capacity, "well you better do : something". : I better. Being a first time new server runner and BSD operator : (although I use Linux extensivly) I am not positive what I can do. : I suppose I can't change my nomber of inodes w/o reformatting the : drive right? If that's true does anyone know how to back up a news server? : The other thing I'd like to know is how should I make the file : systems this time to avoid the problem? Block size, inodes, anything else : I should do now the I have this "opportunity" to reformat my disk. : Oh, the last thing is there some way for me to see the parameters : of my drive right now? I would like to know the block size and some other : info. : Thank You!!! You can back it up like any other partition using tar or dump. Next time when creating a filesystem for news use these parameters. newfs -b 2048 -f 1024 -i 1024 -o space -m 5 <spool dev> This creates 2048 byte blocks (about the average size of an USENET article), 1024 fragment size (good frag size for 2K blocks), set inodes to 1024 (2 inodes/block good for news spool due to file linkage), sets optimization for space (news is slow anyway), set the min free to 5% (any less and it'll back up on you due to poor disk usage, trust me I know!). It is also good practice to spread a feed across multiple hard disks and when setting up the binaries groups on their own hard disk to up the bytes/frags/inodes and possibly the min free. newfs -b 8192 -f 2048 -i 4096 -o space -m 8 <binaries spool dev> Since the binaries files tend to be larger, this is probably the default newfs options in freebsd, so newfs <binaries spool> should yield the same results for the binaries feed drive. Learning from experience is the best way to learn, but not the easiest. Cheers, Ross Walker