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From: jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. De Armond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Still Waiting for Inode fixes, ZZZZZZZZ
Keywords: inode, UNIX, news
Message-ID: <783@rsiatl.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 89 06:51:37 GMT
References: <434@telxon.UUCP> <[257bab4a:240.1]comp.unix.i386;1@nstar.UUCP>
Reply-To: jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. De Armond)
Organization: Radiation Systems, Inc. (a thinktank, motorcycle, car and gun works facility)
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In article <[257bab4a:240.1]comp.unix.i386;1@nstar.UUCP> akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>almost feel the same way.  About a month ago I posted a question about two
>>things, 1). Out of inodes on my news partition, 2). Serial Port problems
>
>Question number 1 - If you are running ISC I was told several months ago
>that you can't adjust the inode allocation under system V.  If you are
>running SCO Xenix this parameter can be changed when making a new device for
>the hard drive.

I don't know where that idea came from but it is false.  RTFM for the
mkfs command.  Note that one option is to specify the blocks AND the
inodes in the format "blocks:inodes".  I've sent the original fellow
email regarding how to fix this problem.  I'll post if there is enough 
interest.


John

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