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From: rcsh@yamnet.UUCP (The Remittance Man @ Delphi Information Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: How to get more then 32000 Inodes!
Keywords: proto file, mkfs
Message-ID: <127@yamnet.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jul 89 22:39:02 GMT
Organization: Delphi Information Systems, R & D Div., Westlake Vlg, Ca.
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Recently I needed to also create a filesystem with more than 32000 
Inodes and finally fell upon a method, by using a proto file you can get
up 65,535 Inodes.

Sample method....

echo "/dev/null 597332 65022" >proto_file
rm /tmp/*
proto /tmp >>proto_file
mkfs /dev/hd7 protofile

mount /dev/hd7 /w

df | grep hd7

/dev/hd7           /w                597332   597328    0%     65022    0%

( The df output is actaul )

--
Greg Noel [Gn] Delphi Information Systems, Westlake Vlg, Ca. 
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