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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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On 2005-03-16 13:22, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:13:09 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas
><keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>> On 2005-03-16 13:05, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> 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?
>
> No i just installed 5.3 i386 base and ports and there is plenty of
> freespace on all default partitions availeble but when i do mkdir it
> tells me no inodes availeble.

Show us the output of:

	# df -ik