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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: inode surgery possible?
Date: 15 Mar 1996 22:16:31 GMT
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le@put.com (Louis Epstein) writes:

> Is there any way in FreeBSD 2.1 to increase the number of inodes on a disk
> without losing its contents?

No, since this requires a file system reorganization.

Read the man page for tunefs(8) for a reference of what can be done
after newfs'ing.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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