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Subject: ran out of inodes on /var, recommended value?
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I reconfigured my ssd filesystem with the /var partition of size 512M.  Unfortunately, something in portsnap or the ports tree in general uses a boatload of small files, and i ran out of inodes.  Can anyone recommend an appropriate size for the newfs -i value?  1024?  less?

Thanks,

Gary