root@dinosaur.lonestar.org (Root of all evil) (01/14/91)
Vital Information: OS - System V.3.2 / Interactive 3.2 News - Bnews version 2.11.19 Hardware: 25Mhz 386 no-floating point co-processor Disks: Drive 0: 110meg ESDI Contains swap space, /, /tmp, /usr Drive 1: 320meg ESDI Contains /usr2 (/usr2/spool/news /usr2/lib/news) I have been running this version of bnews for over 3 weeks without any problems until today. Today I decided to recover some of my disk space and ran an 'expire -E 15 -e 7'. Seems simple enough but now when I receive news (ie. rnews -U) after distributing news for about 10 minutes I start getting errors about no more inodes available on /usr2 partition. And sure enough when I do a 'df' it says I don't have any, but moments earlier I had over 2000 of them. And as you might expect when I unmount the disk and run fsck it reports a problem with the free inode count and fixes the problem, only until the next run of 'rnews -U'. I remember a while back someone posting about a known problem with Interactive's, and I think SCO's, UNIX inode count and that there was a patch or some fix for it. If this is true I am in desperate need of it. To be honest I don't know if the expire had anything to do with it, but everything was working just find until I did that. Thanks in advance Keith Cantrell ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Cantrell Phones: hm: 214-492-1088; wk: 214-669-2509 keith@dinosaur.lonestar.org or ...!uunet!digi!dinosaur!keith -----------------------------------------------------------------------