Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:45:20 -0000 (GMT) From: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com> To: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> Cc: info@boatbooks.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Out of inodes with many small files on disk Message-ID: <199810190444.AAA20776@federation.addy.com> In-Reply-To: <362A620D.33DC@echidna.com>
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On 18-Oct-98 Graeme Tait wrote: > The "out of inodes" condition arose with about 50% of the disk > occupied with the small files The default for FreeBSD (from man newfs) is to have 1 inode for each 4 fragments = 4K. You will need to newfs the disk with something like: newfs -i 1024 That will you 4 times the number of available inodes. > How can I predict if I will run out of inodes before filling a disk (or > partition Simple. Look at the output of df -i and see how many inodes you have free. That is how many files you can have. ---- francisco@natserv.com The power to serve. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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