From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 19:20:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D056637B401 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.sentex.net (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f952Kof44648; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 22:20:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011004221751.02f2cbf8@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 22:20:49 -0400 To: dmp@pantherdragon.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Inode quotas? Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3BBD1700.CC293418@pantherdragon.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 07:12 PM 10/4/2001 -0700, dmp@pantherdragon.org wrote: > > Each file is referenced by a unique inode on the file system. > >In other words, an inode quota sets the maximum number of files a >user can have on a filesystem? Yes >Does a directory also have an inode? Yes >Other than doing df -i and a bit of math, is there a way to determine >the total number of inodes for a given filesystem? Is there a way to >calculate/configure it before doing newfs, in case one needs to tailor >a filesystem to handle X number of files? Yes, see the man pages for newfs and/or documentation about ufs in general. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message