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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: inode surgery possible?
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Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
: Louis Epstein (le@put.com) wrote:
: : Is there any way in FreeBSD 2.1 to increase the number of inodes on a disk
: : without losing its contents?
: : 
: : The disk on my news server that takes the incoming spool is regularly
: : running out of inodes and shutting down processing.I'd like to fix
: : this WITHOUT losing the other contents of the disk,if this is possible!

: You can't.  I already told you that you need to punt the partition
: and newfs it to create a filesystem with more inodes.

Gaaaaah!!

It's just the one of the three 4MB disks that ever has that problem.
What number would be sufficient to prevent recurrence?