cannot alloc 19968 bytes for inoinfo

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Don Lewis wrote:
>> 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"
>
> Hmm - I don't seem to have that sysctl..  What would create it?

It's a loader tunable, not a sysctl variable. man 5 loader.conf

Cheers,
Andy

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