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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: running out of inodes
Keywords: inode
Message-ID: <1948@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 90 21:38:41 GMT
References: <221@oneb.UUCP> <3315@anomaly.sbs.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <3315@anomaly.sbs.com> mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:

| # mkfs /dev/u numofblocksinfilesystem:65550
| 
| Then restore the tape when its done.
| 
| The :65500 indicates to the make filesystem command the number of i-nodes
| you want to allocate on the filesystem. You can only have a maximum of
| 65500 (or something around that) per filesystem.

  16 bits gives you values from 0..65535, which will probably work a lot
better than 65550 ;-)
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