From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 07:21:40 2003 Return-Path: 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 0E54837B401 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 07:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C9543F3F for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 07:21:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:21:31 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 19bLF3-0000lQ-00; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:20:49 +0100 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:20:49 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Gerard Samuel In-Reply-To: <3F0F8C22.80503@trini0.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Inode Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 14:21:40 -0000 On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Gerard Samuel wrote: > A few weeks ago, I had a problem on one of my partitions where it was > running out of inodes. > The guy who helped me out, at the time suggested to either rebuild the > disk or the partition. > I don't remember which one at the moment. > So what should I be doing? Rebuilding the disk or the partition (if > possible) > Thanks I suspect the advice was to recreate the filesystem, allocating more inodes, then restore the FS contents from a backup. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ I am now available for general use under a modified BSD licence.