inode limit in file systems

George Robbins grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Tue Feb 6 03:41:10 AEST 1990


In article <823 at larry.sal.wisc.edu> jwp at 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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