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From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
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Dave Andersen wrote:
> 
> You'll have to newfs the drive and give it more inodes.  (This will wipe
> everything on the drive).  See 'man newfs' for more information.
> 
> 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.

>   -Dave
> 
> Lo and behold, Sergey Kovalenko once said:
> >
> > I have a problem with the file system on FreeBSD 2.1.0.
> >
> > ----Part of /var/log/messages--------------
> > /kernel: uid 8 on /usr/spool: out of inodes
> > /kernel: uid 0 on /usr/spool: out of inodes
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > A separated file system which has been mounted in /usr/spool contains
> > usenet messages base. My INN can't create new messages on this file system.
> >
> > What can I do to solve this problem?
> >
> > Did this problem appeared because of huge amount of files?
> > In this case how could I increase the maximum number of files in file
> > system?
> >
> > Sergey
> >
> 
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-- 
-Enjoy
Gary
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