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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Out of INODES
Date: 27 Jun 1997 21:25:38 GMT
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"Kurt Schafer" <kschafer@cyberbeach.net> wrote:
> I received an error that one of the directories I've got set up as a
> repository for USENET articles is out of inodes.
If you've been using the default number of i-nodes, that's quite
normal.
> The drive is a 4gig barracuda of which 1.2gigs are taken up. But god knows
> how many actual files and directories are hogging inodes.
#define GOD "df -i"
;-)
> Any pointers would be welcome.
newfs -i is your friend.
-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.
That is, for a 4096/512 filesystem (i hope you did at least this), the
default is one i-node per 2 KB data space. You probably need
something like -i 1024 then.
freebsd-isp@freebsd.org might be a good reference for you, it's the
mailing list for ISP-related discussions. I'm sure you'll find people
there more competent than me in this area.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)