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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
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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....