newfs for insufficient inodes file system

[pirat]

hi sirs,

thanks to all who help me in my case.
after trying to backup, i face another big problems -- no more free hard disk 
available.  so i move the whole /usr/ports to /var and sym.link to that 
one instead.  this time i have a plenty of inodes free.

once again thanks so much for all helps.  and also Happy New Year to you all.


On Wednesday, 10 December 2003 at 10:45:00 -0800, Keith Farrar wrote:
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:45:00 PST
> From: Keith Farrar <farrar at parc.com>
> To: pirat <pirat at access.inet.co.th>
> cc: Keith Farrar <farrar at parc.com>
> Subject: Re: newfs for insufficient inodes file system
> 
> My /usr partitions were usually overloaded by files left-over from builds
> under /usr/obj and /usr/ports.
> 
> Run a "make clean" in /usr/ports then relocate it to another file system
> (leave a symlink at /usr/ports pointing to the new location).
> 
> Use "mv /usr/obj /usr/obj.old; rm -rf /usr/obj.old", then recreate
> /usr/obj on another file system. type carefully, or you'll need a /usr
> backup and a bootable CD to recover, been there - ouch! :).
> 
> 
> > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:08:57 PST
> > From: pirat <pirat at access.inet.co.th>
> > To: freebsd-stable at FreeBSD.ORG
> > Cc: Gregory Bond <gnb at itga.com.au>
> > Subject: newfs for insufficient inodes file system
> > 
> > hi sirs,
> > 
> > four months ago, i faced problem of insufficient inodes for /usr and one of 
> > solution for that, from Gregory Bond, was that to backup and do a newfs
> > for that file system.
> > 
> > today the situation become worst since i can not do any portupgrade even
> > /usr/local is a separate file system though.
> > 
> > am not an expert in FreeBSD but a plain user instead.  i have backed /usr up
> > already and going to do newfs on that.  my questions are that
> > 
> >       1) should i drop into a single mode first ?
> >       2) what parameter for newfs to pass to (i used sysinstall to do that
> >          and did make world and friends to upgrade my machine) ? 
> > 
> > below are my uname and informations about /usr
> > 
> > [firak] ~ # uname -a
> > FreeBSD firak.thai-aec.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #7: Sun Dec  7 10:19:07
> >  ICT 2003     firak at firak.thai-aec.org:/var/obj/var/src/sys/Firak  i386
> > 
> > [firak] ~ # newfs -N /dev/ad0s1f
> > Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group to 89.
> > /dev/ad0s1f:    1740800 sectors in 425 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors
> >         850.0MB in 5 cyl groups (89 c/g, 178.00MB/g, 21504 i/g)
> > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
> >  32, 364576, 729120, 1093664, 1458208
> > 
> > any helps and hints are welcome and appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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psr

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