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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: inode surgery possible?
Date: 16 Mar 1996 21:07:57 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) 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.
You *could* do it, just like you *could* grow or shrink a disk.
You would need to write a block relocation program with
user settable allocation/relocation policies.
Basically, a defragger (which isn't needed to defrag things)
with super powers... it could even act as a BSD FIPS.
It's *possible*.
But it hasn't been written.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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