Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:30:57 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de> Cc: ticso@cicely.de, Jan Lentfer <jan@localhost.homeip.net>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No inodes left Message-ID: <20020701163056.GB70344@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <3D207EEA.3040205@web.de> References: <3D2078FE.2040709@web.de> <20020701160247.GZ70344@cicely5.cicely.de> <3D207EEA.3040205@web.de>
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:10:18PM +0200, Jan Lentfer wrote: > Bernd Walter schrieb: > > >Inodes and space are different resources. > >You can see with df -i. > >Every file, link, devnode, directory, ... consumes an inode. > >The number of indoes is constant. > >The only way to increase the number of inodes is to newfs the > >partition. > >Unfortunately the current newfs defaults aren't good for many small > >files like in sources or ports. > >Even a typical FreeBSD installation has a smaller bytes/file ratio > >than newfs creates :( > >I already complained when the change went in, but it was unheared. > > > > > > > I removed an newfs'ed the partitions now, but with standards. Any > suggestion on what paramters to use for newfs? -i option sets the number of byte/inodes. For typical use I would suggest a value of 1024 to 2048. You can see with df -i that the number of inodes increase after newfs. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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