From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 0:54: 1 2003 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 0EFEF37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:54:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D731043EB2 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0A8rvAf004760; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:53:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id h0A8rucd004757; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:53:56 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:53:56 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Rus Foster Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increasing inodes In-Reply-To: <20030110080232.F14425-100000@freebsd.rf0.com> Message-ID: <20030110094833.Q556-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > I've just hit a problem in that I've just tried to compile stuff out of > ports and hit > > / : create/symlink failed, no inodes free > > > df -i show's I've used 98%. Without a newfs is there any way I can > increase the number of indoes (deleting stuff is not really an option) > > Rgds Afaik, two possibilities: 1) You need to dump(8) your filesystem, recreate it with a smaller number of bytes per inode (newfs -i ...), and restore(8) the data. 2) You could increase the size of your file system by using growfs(8) if unused space is left in the disk; the number of inodes will grow, too. Best regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message