Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!le From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: inode surgery possible? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] X-Nntp-Posting-User: (Unauthenticated) Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <DoBJ37.6EE@news2.new-york.net> References: <Do9LGC.3A4@news2.new-york.net> <DoB8s0.Lxo@ritz.mordor.com> X-Trace: 826909026/4190 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:57:07 GMT Lines: 17 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?