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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!newssvr.cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.new-york.net!ritz.mordor.com!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: inode surgery possible? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Lines: 25 Organization: Mordor International Message-ID: <DoD8o6.8Gq@ritz.mordor.com> References: <Do9LGC.3A4@news2.new-york.net> <DoB8s0.Lxo@ritz.mordor.com> <DoBJ37.6EE@news2.new-york.net> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 15:07:17 GMT 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) Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451