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Subject: Re: fsck of large volume with small memory
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> Hi all
>
> Is there any possibillity to fsck a 1.2 TB 40% filled volume with a
> machine that has not that much memory, in this case only 1.5 GB.
>
> The fsck gives me a friendly
>
> # fsck /dev/da1
> ** /dev/da1
> ** Last Mounted on /fileserver
> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 4290901164 bytes for inoinfo
>
> and quits.


quite a lot of memory. on i386 you simply can't allocate >4GB VM.

but i have larger volumes without problems.

what was your newfs options when creating it.

of course you did man fsck_ffs ? :) default options are NOT good, 
overallocates inodes, and possibly needs that amount of ram because of 
this.

if your machine is 64-bit capable use amd64 not i386 version - no 4GB 
limit.