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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.252.192.28!news.stealth.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-west.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.primenet.com!bkogawa From: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Out of INODES Date: 27 Jun 1997 13:31:00 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5p17u4$8oq@nntp02.primenet.com> References: <01bc830e$a0ffc9f0$0f00a8c0@kahuna> X-Posted-By: bkogawa@206.165.6.206 (bkogawa) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43773 "Kurt Schafer" <kschafer@cyberbeach.net> writes: >I received an error that one of the directories I've got set up as a >repository for USENET articles is out of inodes. >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. >The machine is an INND server with the /var/news distributed amongst 4 4gig >drives via symlinks to different tree hierarchies. (alt rec, etc) 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 man page). There is a formula somewhere (the INN FAQ, I believe) which suggests what this number should be, I believe. >Any pointers would be welcome. >- Kurt -- bryan k. ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> <bkogawa@netvoyage.net>