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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: inode limit in file systems
Keywords: inodes
Message-ID: <823@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 90 22:45:53 GMT
Organization: Space Astronomy Lab, Madison WI
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I learned from responses to a previous posting that my news partition
had too few inodes.  I was maxing out on inodes before the partition
was full.  Sooo, I tried making a new file system.  It turns out, in
Ultrix 3.0, that mkfs(8) will not go below 2048 bytes/inode.  (Recall
that the number of inodes is specified in Ultrix as the number of data
bytes per inode, so smaller numbers means more inodes).  If I say 4096
bytes per inode, I get, say, 10000.  If I say 2048 bytes per inode, I
get 12288.  If I say 1024 bytes per inode, I *still* get 12288.

Am I stuck with this?  It's about a 40Mbyte partition.
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Jeffrey W Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu) (608)262-8686