From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jul 1 9:31: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C169C37B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D423443E09 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:31:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g61GUxMa037562 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:31:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g61GUwFJ093039 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:30:58 +0200 (CEST)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) id g61GUvgQ093038; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:30:57 +0200 (CEST)?g (envelope-from ticso) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:30:57 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Jan Lentfer Cc: ticso@cicely.de, Jan Lentfer , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No inodes left Message-ID: <20020701163056.GB70344@cicely5.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: <3D2078FE.2040709@web.de> <20020701160247.GZ70344@cicely5.cicely.de> <3D207EEA.3040205@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D207EEA.3040205@web.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely5.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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