From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 8 3:26:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED0D237B423 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 03:26:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f48AQAk19111; Tue, 8 May 2001 03:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Survey on tuning facts./inodes Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 03:26:10 -0700 Message-ID: <003c01c0d7a9$4cdbec20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You need to run newfs with appropriate options. But, /var is usually created during sysinstall, and there's no option to muck with these settings on installation. Once created, you can't change them without reformatting. Most people in this situation make a small /var and add a second disk mounted in the spool directory, that is created the way they want. You also probably want to continue this discussion in freebsd-questions Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of >root@mail.delanet.com >Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 12:19 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: Survey on tuning facts./inodes > > >Hi, well, I have a "question". > >On Thu, 3 May 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> you do need to go off the defaults. For example, on our >> Usenet news server, which handles many itty-bitty files, I've >> created the spools with a smaller frag size and smaller number of >> bytes per inode because you need all those extra inodes on a >> newsspool (but, it makes the disks run slower so don't ever do >> this on anything other than a newsserver) Also, for another > >Here is leafnode on /var, and some times ago, I lost some mails >with the message "no inodes anymore", when fetching mails with fetchmail. >texpire, ok. But how could I have prevented this from happening, how do I >get more inodes on /var ? > >Hope it is "newbie" enough to be asked here. The danger to ask questions >on newbies and get answers by newbies, well, maybe not in this case ;-) > >Thanks, > >H. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message