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- From: JIM@brownvm.brown.edu (James Mathiesen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Can't make enough inodes
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:45:28 EST
- Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island USA
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- We have a DEC RISC machine running Ultrix 4.2a -- Rev 47.
- Among other things this is being used for netnews and has a couple
- of 1.3gig disks for that purpose. The problem I'm having is there
- are way to few inodes in the filesystems of these disks. The documentation
- says the default is an inode per 2k. These disks have an inode per 4k.
- My best guess is the disks will run out of inodes when they are 65% full.
-
- Here's the newfs command I tried:
-
- # newfs -v -i 512 /dev/rrz5g RZ58
- Warning: partition table overriding /etc/disktab
- /etc/mkfs /dev/rrz5g 1878860 85 15 8192 1024 16 10 60 512 t
- Warning: 502 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
- /dev/rrz5g: 1878848 sectors in 1474 cylinders of 15 tracks, 85 sectors
- 962.0Mb in 93 cyl groups (16 c/g, 10.44Mb/g, 2048 i/g)
-
- But that just builds the same old filesystem with the same number of
- inodes. Passing various -i parameters leads me to believe that mkfs
- is ignoring the value completely.
-
- I can't find anything useful in the man pages for mkfs, newfs, or chpt.
- Does anyone have any suggestions? Partitioning the disk further
- won't help, at least not as long as the ratio of inodes stays the
- same.
-
- james
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