From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 1:13:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924CB37B56C for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 01:13:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bart.lateur@skynet.be) Received: from dialup367.gent.skynet.be (dialup367.gent.skynet.be [195.238.17.111]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 489A7DAFC for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:13:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INODES Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:04:33 GMT Organization: MediaMind Message-ID: <395bc82f.4607658@relay.skynet.be> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/16.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:08:19 +1000 (EST), Andy Farkas wrote: >Don't forget that /usr/ports/distfiles holds all the source tarballs and >can grow quite large... symlink it to another partition... Yes, but it's usually only one file per distribution. The ports themselves, OTOH, are a huge set of extremely small files, I guess about 10 files per port. Those are far more likely to cause an "out of inodes" problem. -- Bart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message