Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:08:19 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <gollucci@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INODES Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006221703490.535-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006211503220.16965-100000@rac9.wam.umd.edu>
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> I decided that I wanted to mount my ports partition separately from
> /usr. So I did. It is mounted as /usr/ports. The size is 150MB as I
> assumed correctly I will never need more then that for all the ports
> related materials.
Don't forget that /usr/ports/distfiles holds all the source tarballs and
can grow quite large... symlink it to another partition...
> Upon trying to use the ports though, I get erros stating that there are
> "no more inodes available", and "sym/link failed", and "can't create file"
>
> I assume that the number of inodes is some function of partition size.
>
> So am I right. How do I fix this if I can, and is this a bad idea to
> mount it separately. What is a reasonable size for this partition
> instead.
Keep the partion size at 150Mb. Increase number of inodes. man newfs.
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>
> Philip M. Gollucci
> SID : 212 - 02 - 4987
> E-mail : gollucci@wam.umd.edu
> Phone : 301.226.5280
>
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