From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 12:13:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC7BC16A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:13:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rosebud.otenet.gr (rosebud.otenet.gr [195.170.0.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 115F643D1F for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:13:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226])j2GCClIn010695; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:12:48 +0200 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) j2GCDAGD007861; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:13:10 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost)j2GCD9NH007860; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:13:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:13:09 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gert Cuykens Message-ID: <20050316121309.GA7793@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inode X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:13:14 -0000 On 2005-03-16 13:05, Gert Cuykens wrote: > What is a inode ? I installed freebsd 5.3 on a 2gb harddisk and it > tells me there are not enough inodes ? Aldo there is diskspace > availeble ? > > Does it mean there are to many directories ? Can you fix this ? i-nodes are the areas where the file system saves information such as the owner, the size and pointers to the data area of a normal or special file or a directory. 2 GB is a lot of space for a virgin FreeBSD installation. The base system takes up to 170 MB on a clean disk here. - Have you tweaked the newfs options that sysinstall used? - Have you installed any extra packages? How many and which?