root@sgzh.uu.ch (0000-Bruno Pape(0000)) (12/07/90)
Hello ipi and inode types,
I had a nice day at CERN yesterday, installing a 340S with a 1.1GB IPI
drive. It was very interesting to see a 1.1GB drive run out of inodes
while installing 3.3.1 on the default partitions. After one of the people
there introduced me to "df -i" we could see that the defaults of mkfs on a
1.1GB IPI drive created the same number of inodes that it creats on a 380MB
SCSI drive. This leads to a much lower inode concontration on a 1.1GB IPI
drive which futhermore leads to the root partition running out of free inodes
while trying to create 3.3.1.
Couldn't you guys in Mountain View put a sticker on the IPI's, something like:
"Warning: Default inode concentration insufficent for OS installation."
In the meantime anyone mucking around on the root partition would be advised
not to accept the defaults of "mkfs". Use "mkfs -i /dev/dsk/ipi0d0s0" to
find out how many inodes it would like to create for you on the root partition
and then stuff most of the information back into "mkfs" doubling the number
of inodes.
BTW: how much of your time do you guys spend dreaming up subtile new ways
of keeping us boys in the field from going completely soft in the head?
Thanks again,
Bruno Pape