Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!omen!caf
From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Still Waiting for Inode fixes, ZZZZZZZZ
Keywords: inode, UNIX, news
Message-ID: <878@omen.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 07:36:01 GMT
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Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
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In article <257cf96c:240.6comp.unix.i386;1@nstar.UUCP> akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
:>The *correct* answer to the question can be found in
:>any System V System Administrators Reference Manual:
:
:Let's be nice now - I've based my information on what I heard 
:when I called ISC technical support - and I was told that under System V
:the inode allocation could not be changed.  Under SCO, using the manual I
:changed the number of inodes using mkfs.   I was just relaying information
:that I received from the folks who did the port.

Both answers are correct.  Mkfs since V7 or before can be told
how many inodes to make in a new FS.  But I know of no way to
increase the number of inodes on an existing file system.