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Thanks.  I guess I may as well get a bigger disk...  ;)

Jan Grant wrote:

>On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Gerard Samuel wrote:
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>>A few weeks ago, I had a problem on one of my partitions where it was
>>running out of inodes.
>>The guy who helped me out, at the time suggested to either rebuild the
>>disk or the partition.
>>I don't remember which one at the moment.
>>So what should I be doing?  Rebuilding the disk or the partition (if
>>possible)
>>Thanks
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>I suspect the advice was to recreate the filesystem, allocating more
>inodes, then restore the FS contents from a backup.
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