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From: "E. Lakin" <pharaoh@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: out of inodes - but me and "df" disagree!
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ack...i've just installed freebsd on my machine, and am getting some weird
problems with inodes & the root partition. on booting, i get many errors
about being out of inodes on "/". but i can still log in, and doing "touch
/tmp/foo" gives the same error. However, the output of "df -i" does not
agree that the root partition is out of inodes:

Filesystem  512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a        98462    26988    63598    30%     772   14586     5%   /
/dev/sd0s1e    1708510   803886   767944    51%   31653  175705    15%   /usr
/dev/sd1s1f     894302       30   822728     0%      13  115185     0%   /usr/home
/dev/sd1s1e      98462     1258    89328     1%     241   15117     2%   /var
procfs               8        8        0   100%      16     164     9%   /proc

does anybody know why this is happening?

here's some more info: after this started, i booted into single-user mode,
and ran fsck. it told me that the free block cound was wrong in the
superblock of sd0a (root partition). After fixing this, fsck says that the
clean flag has not been set on sd0a, even if i tell it to fix it 5 times
in a row. 

basically, i have no idea what's happening. but here's my hardware:

	VLB motherboard, dx4-100 (actually an amd 5x86 running slow)
	32MB RAM
	Adaptec 2842A SCSI adapter
	Seagate 1gig HD
	Quantum 500MB HD
	2x SCSI CD-ROM
	#9 GXE64 Pro video card
	generic i/o card

thx for any advice anyone can give!
	
	--eric lakin