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From: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Running out of inodes
Message-ID: <1033@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 30 May 89 11:46:54 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex
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We have a Symmetry S81 with two Swallow4 540Mb disks, running DYNIX 3.0.12.
A few times in the last month, the partition containing our news spool
area has suffered from inode overflow, even though only about 50% of the
available space was used up. We decided to rebuild the file system with
more inodes, using the "newfs" command (disk type m2344k).

Trouble is, we find that no matter what number is supplied with the -i
option to newsfs, the file system is rebuilt with exactly the same
number as before (i.e. 36864 inodes on a 254Mb partition)! We asked for
twice the current number of inodes.

Anyone know what might be happening here? Is newfs simply ignoring the
option or is something else overriding it? We ran newfs(8) also with the
-v (verbose) option, and it appeared from the diagnostics that our
requested number of inodes was not being passed on to mkfs. 

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Andy Clews, Computing Service, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, ENGLAND
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