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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Increasing Inodes Date: 15 Jul 1996 02:46:53 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4sc7ud$791@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4s1pkb$429@tribune> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Damien Thorn (Judasg@cris.com) wrote: : 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. man newfs : 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? The FFS uses fragments of these blocks to store the last bit of (or the whole of) a file. Again, refer to the newfs man page. You're looking for -i & -f. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....