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From: Judasg@cris.com (Damien Thorn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Increasing Inodes
Date: 11 Jul 1996 07:13:23 GMT
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
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Greetings -

I'm hoping someone can explain how to recreate a couple 1.3 gig partitions
on a soon-to-be news server.  Using FreeBSD 2.0, we created default par-
titions and have run out of inodes after using only about 20% of each
partition.  I'd like to redo the file system with about 5x the default
number of inodes.

Also, the drives have (and are probed as) having 512 byte sectors.
FreeBSD is defaulting to using 1k blocks.  Should we redo the FS with
512 byte blocks as well?  Does this require even more inodes?

Detailed feedback would be much appreciated.

Thanks !

J.G.