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- From: rob@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull)
- Subject: Re: Ultrix newfs/mkfs -- can't change number of inodes?!
- Message-ID: <BzGs20.9xE@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:49:08 GMT
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- Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
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- >I've been trying to make a filesystem with more inodes (my news partition
- >is chronically short of them), and can't figure out how to make it happen.
- >I'm running Ultrix 4.2a RISC on a DS3100 and using RZ57s. 'newfs' is
- >supposed to take "-i <bytes/inode", but no matter what I specify it always
- >creates the same number of inodes (4,096 in my experimental 16MB partition.)
- >I also tried using mkfs directly but no dice...
-
- This is from memory, so...
- I saw this same thing on our Encore Multimax. It appears that there is a
- limit on the '-i' option. I believe we ended up reducing the number of
- cylinders/group, which effectively increases the number of inodes.
-
- Robert
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- Robert K. Shull, Sr. Applications Programmer, Engineering Computer Network
- rob@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
- Disclaimer: OU can't afford opinions, so these must be mine.
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