From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 01:04:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA21082 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 01:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.aros.net (root@shell.aros.net [205.164.111.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA21069 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 01:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by shell.aros.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA02286; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 02:04:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199609020804.CAA02286@shell.aros.net> Subject: Re: Problem with file system To: tcg@ime.net Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 02:04:30 -0600 (MDT) Cc: angio@aros.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <322A7307.72C8@ime.net> from Gary Chrysler at "Sep 2, 96 01:39:19 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lo and behold, Gary Chrysler once said: > > In brief: newfs -i XXXX > > > > where XXXX should probably be 1024. The default is 2048, which obviously > > isn't enough in your case. > > > > Am I missing something here or is this a typo.. :) > > 'should be 1024, The default is 2048', Hmm. Kinda looks bassackwards > to me. If 2048 is the default and is not enough then 1024 would > make it worse right?? > > Just asking, I don't know myself, Maybe I'm wrong. It's in TFM. :) -i number of byte per inode So the larger the number, the MORE bytes per inode. You want to tell it to create one inode for every 1k of disk space instead of every 2k of disk space (the default), because the average news article is less than 1k, so you run out. That way, you get tons of inodes at the expense of some drive space. Of course, if you have a separate partition for binaries (which either you do, or you're not carrying binaries) you can do the reverse: -i 4096 or something similar, because the average alt.binaries file is considerably larger than 4k. Dave Andersen -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'."