lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke) (04/10/91)
We have a NeXT cube that serves as our mail/news host. It has a 660 mb drive in it - apparently set up in the default NeXT fashion assuming that it was to be a NetInfo host, and therefore it has a 200+mb partition called /clients. I figured that would be a great place to put the news spool directory, since if it ever "overflowed", it wouldn't cause problems for the rest of the system, and since it was otherwise unused space (on our system). Well, I created /clients/spool/news and then created a link between /usr/spool/news and /clients/spool/news. It works great, except that there seems to be an incredible shortage of inodes on that partition. If I do "df -i", I get the following: Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/sd0a 446719 328768 73279 82% 15170 56510 21% / /dev/sd0b 216311 65350 129329 34% 21248 5952 78% /clients The only reason that there are 5952 inodes free is that we get a partial newsfeed, and over time I have been reducing the number of days of news I keep around. Inevitably, we get to the point of about 40% of the disk space used (capacity), and the inodes are all gone. This locks up rnews, and also prevents incoming and outgoing mail from being processed until expire runs at midnight, thus unlocking rnews and unblocking our mail. Is /clients really only supposed to have 27000 or so inodes? The root partition has better than twice that, and I had no problems running news over there - I just wanted to use the 200mb partition since it was available, but I can never get more than about 80mb of news on it before we run out of inodes. A friend suggested re-initializing the partition (with dp or dd or mkfs???) but I really have no idea how to go about doing this. I have no problem blowing away everything on /clients to re-do something if it's really necessary, but I thought I'd check and see if anyone else has run into this before. If so, I'd love to hear from you... Steve Lemke, Postmaster Radius Inc (radius.com) -- ----- Steve Lemke, KC6QDT - Software Engineering, Radius Inc., San Jose ----- ----- Reply to: lemke@radius.com -- U.C. Santa Barbara ECE Class of '89 ----- ----- "I'm not a UNIX wizard, but I play the Postmaster at radius.com." -----