From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 16:41:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA28673 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 16:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.aros.net (mailhub.aros.net [205.164.111.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA28668 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 16:41:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra.aros.net (terra.aros.net [205.164.111.10]) by mailhub.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) with ESMTP id RAA23496; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:41:35 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA06688; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:41:33 -0600 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199609012341.RAA06688@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: Problem with file system To: sergey@comcentre.nikolaev.ua (Sergey Kovalenko) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:41:33 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609012127.AAA20633@crazy.comcentre.nikolaev.ua> from "Sergey Kovalenko" at Sep 2, 96 00:39:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] 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 You'll have to newfs the drive and give it more inodes. (This will wipe everything on the drive). See 'man newfs' for more information. In brief: newfs -i XXXX where XXXX should probably be 1024. The default is 2048, which obviously isn't enough in your case. -Dave Lo and behold, Sergey Kovalenko once said: > > I have a problem with the file system on FreeBSD 2.1.0. > > ----Part of /var/log/messages-------------- > /kernel: uid 8 on /usr/spool: out of inodes > /kernel: uid 0 on /usr/spool: out of inodes > ------------------------------------------- > > A separated file system which has been mounted in /usr/spool contains > usenet messages base. My INN can't create new messages on this file system. > > What can I do to solve this problem? > > Did this problem appeared because of huge amount of files? > In this case how could I increase the maximum number of files in file > system? > > Sergey > -- 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'."