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From: Michael Sierchio <Michael.Sierchio@NOSPAMSun.Com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Out of INODES
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 15:07:57 -0700
Organization: Oversized Metaphysics
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Bryan Ogawa wrote:

> You will need to reformat the drive. AFAIK, this is the only way to
> increase the number of inodes.  It's a flag to newfs (-i, according to the


Distinguish between formatting and making a filesystem...  

The newfs otion -i is:

     -i number of bytes per inode

                 This specifies the density of inodes in the file system.  The
                 default is to create an inode for every (4 * frag-size) bytes
                 of data space.  If fewer inodes are desired, a larger number
                 should be used; to create more inodes a smaller number should
                 be given.