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Subject: Re: out of inodes
To: tanel@juku.li.ttu.ee (Tanel Kuusk)
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> Hi all.

> I have such a problem:  I'm using /var filesystem for spooling news and mail
> But now the filesystem ran out of inodes, although there is still 50 megs
> of free space. What can I do?

You'll need to recreate the filesystem using a smaller bytes-per-inode
value:

	e.g.	newfs -i 1024 /dev/device