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Article #865Re: Running out of inodes
From: Snoopy
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 16:02
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 16:02
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In article <1033@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes:
|Trouble is, we find that no matter what number is supplied with the -i
|option to newsfs, the file system is rebuilt with exactly the same
|number as before (i.e. 36864 inodes on a 254Mb partition)! We asked for
|twice the current number of inodes.
|
|Anyone know what might be happening here? Is newfs simply ignoring the
|option or is something else overriding it? We ran newfs(8) also with the
|-v (verbose) option, and it appeared from the diagnostics that our
|requested number of inodes was not being passed on to mkfs.
Sounds odd. As a workaround, you could try running newfs -v to get
all the magic numbers, and then running mkfs directly, tweaking the
'nbpi' argument as desired. Unless Sequent has done something unusual,
newfs is merely a friendly front-end to mkfs.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!ogccse!cvedc!nosun!illian!sopwith!snoopy From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: Re: Running out of inodes Summary: Try running mkfs directly? Message-ID: <193@sopwith.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 89 16:02:21 GMT References: <1033@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm Lines: 22