From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 12:27:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA15010 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 12:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA15004 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 12:27:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA20092; Mon, 13 May 1996 15:27:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 15:27:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Craig Stratton cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: I have run out of inodes In-Reply-To: <01BB40EE.396C17C0@apollo108.brandcomms.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 13 May 1996, Craig Stratton wrote: > Hi, i have a problem with my news server. One of the disks has runout of inodes and it is only at 36% capacity. What can i do to remedy this problem ? > Can i dynamically allocate more inodes, will i need to re format the hard disk, or what else can i do ? you need to reformat that hard disk. For news articles, I've found the best to be 'newfs -i 2048', which allocates one inode for every 2k. Default, I believe, is 4 to 1? On the other hand, I've found that if you go with a seperate file system for the .overview records, go with something like 'newfs -i 8192', which gives you a bit more storage space on those file systems. Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org