cannot alloc 19968 bytes for inoinfo

Don Lewis truckman at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 31 22:45:00 PDT 2005


On 31 May, Eric Anderson wrote:
> One of my filesystems won't fsck.  I'm not sure how to fix it, or what 
> it's really trying to tell me.
> 
> # fsck -y /vol1
> ** /dev/da0s1d
> ** Last Mounted on /vol1
> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 19968 bytes for inoinfo
> 
> 
> df -i /vol1 output:
> Filesystem  1K-blocks        Used    Avail Capacity  iused     ifree 
> %iused  Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1d 1891668564 1684163832 56171248    97% 55109756 189360002 
> 23%   /vol1
> 
> 
> Any help would be very appreciated!

You're probably running into the default 512MB data size limit.  Try
setting kern.maxdsiz to a larger value in /boot/loader.conf and
rebooting.  I've got mine set to 1GB.
	kern.maxdsiz="1073741824"



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