Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!beartrk!ceilidh!dnichols From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: I-node limit on 3B2 with System V R3.2.2 Message-ID: <1991Feb8.002139.5624@ceilidh.beartrack.com> Date: 8 Feb 91 00:21:39 GMT References: <768@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> <1844@devildog.att.com> <1991Feb7.164759.4550@ceilidh.beartrack.com> Organization: D and D Data, Vienna, VA. Lines: 27 In article <1991Feb7.164759.4550@ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) writes: >In article <1844@devildog.att.com> jrallen@devildog.att.com (Jon Allen) writes: >>In article <768@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> hellwig@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Oliver Hellwig ) writes: >>>I'm running System V R 3.2.2 on a 3B2/600G machine, and it seems that there >>>is a limit of 64K i-nodes for a file system. If this is true, then this >>>would be a very serious failing, especially for someone like me who >> >>Yep, I have the very same problem. This seems to be a MAJOR limitation to >>running news on a 3B2. I have plenty of disk space, but hit the 64K inode >>limit. The only alternative I know (besides using something else) is to >>hack up news to allow multple file systems under /usr/spool/news. Mods like >>this have been/or are availble, but I have not used them. > > If you have an extra filesystem to use, just stop news from running, >use du to identify some branch at the first level below /usr/spool/news [ lots of my article deleted ... ] DON'T TRY THIS! I neglected to consider the effects of cross-posting. Sorry to all for the waste of net.bandwidth DoN. -- Donald Nichols (DoN.) | Voice (Days): (703) 664-1585 D&D Data | Voice (Eves): (703) 938-4564 Disclaimer: from here - None | Email: --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---