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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Increasing number of i-nodes using the sysinstall utility
To: robin@nis.za (robin)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 11:44:40 -0700 (MST)
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> We are running a news server on FreeBSD 2.1.0-951005-SNAP with
> a 270Mb boot/swap drive and a 1.2 Gig data drive.
> 
> We find that with innd we tend to run out of i-nodes. Is there a
> way of specifying how many you want when you install with sysinstall?
> 
> Failing that, how do I reformat the drive with increased i-nodes?

Man newfs.  I believe sysinstall supports override options on newfs
as part of the disk setup.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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