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From: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Is anyone executing Cnews on microport 2.4 ?
Summary: inode bug
Keywords: cnews, uport, microport
Message-ID: <773@micropen>
Date: 10 Jul 89 13:58:56 GMT
References: <1884@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <14@pfm.UUCP>
Organization: Micropen Dirent Writing Systems, Pittsford, NY
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In article <14@pfm.UUCP>, root@pfm.UUCP (TSOS of PFM) writes:
> No, sorry, I have the microport sys V 386 Rel. 3.0, but I have 
> trouble with the "spacefor" - the whole time inews says that there
> is not enough space at my /usr/spool/news (32 MB free space !).

Often news fails with out of space messages if the inode table is full.
The SV/386 with release < 3.2.1 will have the infamous inode bug
which will report out of inodes incorrectly.  Use df -t to see.  The only
*real* fix is to upgrade or to mkfs.  Fsck fixes are only temporary.

-- 
David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
micropen!dave@ee.rochester.edu

"The faster I go, the behinder I get." --Lewis Carroll