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#! rnews 2122 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.new-york.net!news.put.com!le From: le@put.com (Infobot) Subject: Re: inode surgery possible? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: usenet@put.com (The Root) Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <DoF023.7wD@put.com> References: <Do9LGC.3A4@news2.new-york.net> <DoB8s0.Lxo@ritz.mordor.com> <DoBJ37.6EE@news2.new-york.net> <DoD8o6.8Gq@ritz.mordor.com> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 13:56:25 GMT Lines: 31 Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote: : Louis Epstein (le@put.com) wrote: : : 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? : This is what I use. You should read the man page for newfs and : season to taste: : newfs -a 8 -d 0 -b 4096 -f 1024 -i 3000 (for non-alt) : newfs -a 8 -d 0 -b 16384 -f 4096 -i 10240 (for alt) Hmmm...my three disks are alt.binaries,alt.everything-but-binaries,and everything-but-alt(local hierarchies will be on the fourth disk that holds the history files).In.coming is on the everything-but-alt disk,which is the one that runs out of inodes...the alt.binaries disk never uses much of its inode allotment at all.