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From: rbt@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier ROBERT)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Making new Inodes
Date: 26 Jul 1996 13:36:12 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <4t9v4i$a87@news.kth.se>, Tomas Gustavsson <tomasg@dsv.su.se> wrote:
> My problem is that I have run oout of inodes on a disk. Can I make
> more inodes without doing a newfs?

Nope.

> If I have to do newfs, do i specify more or less to the -i flag?

The parameter after ``-i'' specify the disk space for which an inode is
created. That is, assume a 200 MB slice and ``-i 4096''. You'll end up with
200 MB/4 KB = more or less 50000 inodes. So you can calculate how many
inodes you need, include a bit more for safety and feed that to ``-i''.

Note that newfs defaults to 4x fragment size. That gives 2 KB for a
4 KB/512 B FS and 4 KB for 8 KB/1 KB FS.