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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ruhr.de!nathan.ruhr.de!not-for-mail From: ue@nathan.ruhr.de (Udo Erdelhoff) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: newfs bug... Date: 14 Apr 1996 22:03:36 +0200 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4krlmo$n1@nathan.ruhr.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: nathan.ruhr.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, I had to recreate the filesystem used for /var today because I kept running out of inodes. The manual page states that the default is to create one inode per 2048 bytes of data space. I found out that a simple newfs /dev/rsd1s1f would create a filesystem with approx. 100 MByte data space and approx. 30000 inodes. In other words: one inode per 3072 bytes of data space. A newfs -i 2048 /dev/rsd1s1f created a filesystem with ~50000 inodes for ~100 MBytes data space. That's more like it. Is this a flaw in newfs, the manual page for it or did I miss something important? The system runs FreeBSD 2.1R. /s/Udo PS: The original filesystem had only 13000 inodes for 100 MBytes of data space. I think that the installation program that created this filesystem should be forced to run under WIN95 for a couple of days. Crime must not pay.... -- Udo Erdelhoff ue@nathan.ruhr.de