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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: inode limit in file systems
Keywords: inodes
Message-ID: <9608@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Feb 90 16:41:10 GMT
References: <823@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <823@larry.sal.wisc.edu> jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) writes:
> 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.

There was some fairly extensive discussion about this a couple of months
ago.  If nobody pulls out the right answers, I'll grep it out and post
something tonite...

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