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Date:      Mon, 02 Sep 1996 10:09:34 -0400
From:      Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
To:        Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with file system
Message-ID:  <322AEA9E.7862@ime.net>
References:  <199609020804.CAA02286@shell.aros.net>

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Dave Andersen wrote:
> 
> Lo and behold, Gary Chrysler once said:
> 
> > > In brief:  newfs -i XXXX <filesystem>
> > >
> > > 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.
> 

Thank you..
I learned what I needed in 5 minutes, versus hours RTFM'n.

-Enjoy
Gary
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