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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Prob w/ WD 1 gig Drive and FreeBSD 2.0R Date: 16 Feb 1995 11:58:26 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3hvel2$js7@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3htjrf$t0m@earth.usa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3htjrf$t0m@earth.usa.net>, Scotty bethke <kbethke@earth> wrote: >Ive come upon a strange error with the FreeBSD-RELEASE 2.0 and my Western >DIgital 1 Gig IDE drive (WDC3100). > >The drive fills to about 78% and I get this error from the kernel: > >Feb 15 13:57:27 news kernel: uid 0 on /var/spool/news: out of inodes >Feb 15 13:57:27 news last message repeated 4 times Yeah, the key phrase there is /var/spool/news! ;-) It's not an error - you didn't create the news partition with enough inodes as a percentage of free space. Poul, make a note - we need to expose this somehow in the 2.1 install. Maybe if it sees a partition named /var, it says "are you going to be using this partition for storing news?" :-) Jordan