From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 0: 8:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9D637B565 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 00:08:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA03285; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:08:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:08:19 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: "Philip M. Gollucci" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INODES In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > ***************************************************************************** > > Philip M. Gollucci > SID : 212 - 02 - 4987 > E-mail : gollucci@wam.umd.edu > Phone : 301.226.5280 > > ***************************************************************************** > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message