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- From: larry@trauma.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
- Subject: Re: HELP!! run out of spaces for news
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- Organization: Gator Conferencing Systems - 219-289-0777 - 6 lines
- References: <1992Jul20.155138.15455@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:52:11 GMT
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- a-willyp@microsoft.com (Willy Paine) writes:
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- >My hardware is: DELL UNIX SVR4 with ESDI 650 meg
- > hard drive.
-
- OK
-
- >I need your help on setting mkfs for news spools
- >(/usr/spool/news). I get running out of disk
- >spaces (out of inodes), even I have 94 megB left.
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- >I am trying to use 1/2 of whole hard drive for
- >one file system named /usr/spool/news. Can you
- >please help me to build file system with enough
- >inodes for full newsfeed? Need to know the
- >information on getting block and inodes numbers
- >plus parameters of mkfs.
-
- you could look in the manual for mkfs under the ufs page --
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- but something like
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- mkfs -Fufs -onbpi=2048,free=0,opt=s ..... should work
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- the key is the nbpi parameter which handles the inode blocking
-
- --
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