Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:47:57 -0700 From: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: info@boatbooks.com Subject: Out of inodes with many small files on disk Message-ID: <362A620D.33DC@echidna.com>
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Hi, I have a situation where I want to more-or-less fill a disk with tiny files. Most are a little under 1k, which I understand is the default minimum fragment size. When I was expanding a gzipped archive of such files onto the destination drive, I got the message "out of inodes". The disk concerned is ~500MB with a single partition (/dev/wd1s1e in the df -ik listing below). The "out of inodes" condition arose with about 50% of the disk occupied with the small files. The files are stored in what I hope is a reasonably intelligent structure, like dir1/dir2/file with at most a few thousand files per dir2, and a few hundred dir2 per dir1. What do I need to do to make it possible to fill the disk with such minimal-size files? Will it be necessary to repartition the disk? How can I predict if I will run out of inodes before filling a disk (or partition within a multi-partition disk). Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/wd0s1a 31775 16705 12528 57% 936 6742 12% / /dev/wd0s1f 277527 241099 14226 94% 19598 49520 28% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 29727 1221 26128 4% 155 7523 2% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% 37 143 21% /proc /dev/wd1s1e 510575 297237 172492 63% 130558 0 100% /ddrive -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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