Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:02:51 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Graham North <graham.north@telus.net> Subject: Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree Message-ID: <20040712190251.GA839@procyon.nekulturny.org> In-Reply-To: <20040710175008.30edb5fc.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <003e01c466bf$ff07e270$627ba8c0@phoenix> <20040710175008.30edb5fc.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 03:50:08PM -0600, Bill Moran wrote: > > "Graham North" <graham.north@telus.net> wrote: > > > recently installing a full ports tree I find that my FBSD /usr slice is > > almost out of file handles. > > This is very unusual. There are generally more than enough inodes so that > you don't run out of inodes before you run out of space. Did you use I don't think it's that unusual for a small slice. For example I recently installed FreeBSD on a 1.44GB hard drive, using the auto-defaults, and I ran out of inodes on /usr before sysinstall was finished installing the ports collection. That's when I learned about those options to newfs. It's only the inodes / block averaged over time figure that matters when determining the proper ratio. Some activities (like installing the ports collection) use a lot of inodes / block, but that doesn't mean the steady- state use of the system will continue to consume inodes at the same prodigious rate. The OP will probably be fine by giving himself twice the inodes on that partition. -- Danny MacMillan
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