inode

[Gert Cuykens]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:27:21 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas
<keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2005-03-16 13:22, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:13:09 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas
> ><keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> >> On 2005-03-16 13:05, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > What is a inode ? I installed freebsd 5.3 on a 2gb harddisk and it
> >> > tells me there are not enough inodes ? Aldo there is diskspace
> >> > availeble ?
> >> >
> >> > Does it mean there are to many directories ? Can you fix this ?
> >>
> >> i-nodes are the areas where the file system saves information such as
> >> the owner, the size and pointers to the data area of a normal or special
> >> file or a directory.
> >>
> >> 2 GB is a lot of space for a virgin FreeBSD installation.  The base
> >> system takes up to 170 MB on a clean disk here.
> >>
> >> - Have you tweaked the newfs options that sysinstall used?
> >> - Have you installed any extra packages?  How many and which?
> >
> > No i just installed 5.3 i386 base and ports and there is plenty of
> > freespace on all default partitions availeble but when i do mkdir it
> > tells me no inodes availeble.
> 
> Show us the output of:
> 
>         # df -ik
> 

$ df -ik
Filesystem  1K-blocks   Used  Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    253678  35430 197954    15%     981 32041    3%   /
devfs               1      1      0   100%       0     0  100%   /dev
/dev/ad0s1e    253678      6 233378     0%       3 33019    0%   /tmp
/dev/ad0s1f    673024 332902 286282    54%   87038     0  100%   /usr
/dev/ad0s1d    253678    240 233144     0%      98 32924    0%   /var
$

Its only the /usr partition that seems to have inode problems