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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!se From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how do I re-newfs my newsspool Date: 18 Oct 1995 19:30:06 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 30 Message-ID: <463kju$n55@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <4616gm$2f1@shellx.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de In article <4616gm$2f1@shellx.best.com>, paigen@shellx.best.com (David Paigen) writes: |> I have just discovered (surprise!) that there are not enough |> inodes in my newsspool. I check the man page for newfs to see |> what I had to do, and I still have some questions... |> |> Can I just specify a -i argument and depend on defaults for the rest? |> |> Will this procedure work? |> 1. dump /dev/sd0d |> 2. umount /dev/sd0d 3. newfs -i 1024 -b 4096 -f 512 /dev/sd0d (You may need to change the size of the cylinder group, too. The clustering code has sped up the 4K block file system considerably, and you will make much better use of your spool directory using small fragments ...) |> 4. mount /dev/sd0d /var/spool/news |> 5. restore /dev/sd0d This should do the job, else ... STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/staff/esser/esser.html <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>