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#! rnews 1901 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!Chicago.xs4all.nl!usenet From: Sander Temme <sander@Chicago.xs4all.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help !! I have run out of inodes !!!! Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 00:14:36 +0200 Organization: Wherever Lines: 30 Message-ID: <319905CC.41C67EA6@Chicago.xs4all.nl> References: <4n7lnp$190@emerald.xara.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: chicago.xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) To: Craig Stratton <craigs@brandcomms.com> Craig Stratton wrote: > > My server has informed me that i have run out of inodes > 495358 used 0 free, but he disk is only 36% full. > > How can i increase the number of inodes available ? > Can i do it without damaging the data on the disk already ? > (1.3Gb) > Do you have one 1.3 gig partition? That's big. FreeBSD usually suggests assigning some smaller partitions. Do you run news or uucp on that disk? When my /var partition ran out of inodes (I run a very limited newsfeed), I just tarred the whole /var partition, unmounted it and ran newfs on the special device. newfs Has a lot of options, see man newfs. Then I tar xf 'd the data. However, ever since I did this my news expire doesn't happen anymore. I suspect some permissions got lost in the tarring/untarring, because it runs fine as root and I already had to make /var/tmp world-writable. I don't know what went wrong. But this should be the way to get more inodes per kbyte on your disk. S. -- Sander the Sybersurfer sander@chicago.xs4all.nl Powered by FreeBSD http://www.xs4all.nl/~sctemme Finger sctemme@xs4all.nl for PGP Public Key.