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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: inode surgery possible?
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:14:24 GMT

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.

Chris

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