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From: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Missing inodes on V/386 & News
Summary: not the fix
Message-ID: <804@micropen>
Date: 25 Jul 89 13:15:33 GMT
References: <456@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Organization: Micropen Direct Writing Systems, Pittsford, NY
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In article <456@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
> 
>   I have been having a repeating problem recently with loosing inodes
> in my News file system. I have a seperate file system ( /dev/dsk/1s3 )
> on my 2nd hard disk for /usr/spool/news. About every other day the inode
> count gets screwed up. 
> John Gayman, WA3WBU              |           UUCP: uunet!wa3wbu!john


Although it appears that fsck "fixes" the problem, it does not!
Tar out the file system to /tmp.  mkfs the file system again.  Bump up 
the inodes so that you are guaranteed to run out of blocks before inodes.
My news is is 15 meg and has 15000 inodes (yes, one per block.)  I just
got tired of this and went crazy, but it *never* has had the problem again!

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

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