Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 01:54:20 -0600 From: Eric Timme <timothy@voidnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: out of inodes (4.7-stable shortly post-install) Message-ID: <200301050154.20590.timothy@voidnet.com>
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Just performed a from scratch installation of FreeBSD from a snapshot off= =20 snapshots.jp.freebsd.org (dated January 2 or 3, 2003), and when building=20 stuff from ports have suddenly gotten the out of inodes message =3D( The install was done onto a 1.6gb harddrive, and was a reinstall of an al= ready=20 functional 4.7-stable machine, with the same partitioning settings, which= is=20 what makes this so strange. I didn't change anything in the=20 partitioning/slice editors, so whatever settings I used were the default. The results of df -ih are as follows: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 89M 44M 37M 54% 1535 9983 13% / /dev/ad0s1e 79M 4.0K 72M 0% 2 10236 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 886M 620M 195M 76% 107214 6448 94% /usr /dev/ad0s1g 93M 92K 86M 0% 44 12114 0% /usr/home /dev/ad0s1h 99M 6.1M 85M 7% 463 12463 4% /usr/local /dev/ad0s1d 99M 406K 90M 0% 120 12678 1% /var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% 41 955 4% /proc /dev/ad1s1 490M 2.0K 451M 0% 1 62973 0% /usr/obj As you can see I'm using up 94% of my /usr partition's inodes just standi= ng=20 still, and only have around 6500 free, compared with almost 110000 used! = The=20 /usr partition does house both a source and ports tree, and as you can se= e I=20 utilize a second hard-drive to build my world. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of an inode comparison with the old ins= tall,=20 but I do know that I had never gotten that message merely building=20 portupgrade, or even when building two things at once. The space taken u= p by=20 files is about the same, however, when compared to the older setup. Those things said, I guess my question is, for a low use gateway is 6500 = free=20 inodes enough; am I causing myself grief over nothing? (By low use I mean= it=20 does nothing but serves webpages and performs firewalling/NAT duties for = the=20 household; no mail or news handling, or anything like that). I'd considered for a moment doing a reinstall, but I'm not sure if it's t= he=20 small size of the partition/hard drive that is limiting their number, or = if=20 perhaps they were created with an overly large size for a partition that=20 houses such a large number of small files. Additionally, now that the=20 installation is finished, the only partitions that should be experiencing= any=20 growth should be /var and /usr/local, so the inode limit should only be=20 tested during a port's build, shouldn't it? Anyhow, could someone more familiar with such matters weigh in? Thanks, Troubled in Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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