I'm pretty sure that in order to raise the number of inodes, you'll have to reformat the partition, which will mean moving your news articles aside; there may be a way to edit a live ext2 filesystem to raise the inode count but even then I'd want to make sure I had a backup of /var, as it's likely to be risky.
Once you have /var backed up, check into the mke2fs manpage. There might not be an option for tuning a filesystem in the standard debian install but it shouldn't be too hard to format your /dev/hda3 by hand instead of having the installation scripts do it for you. HTH, -mrj On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:00:20AM +0000, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > Trying to reconstruct a set of news archive, I recently ran out of inodes. > > debian:/home/merlin# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 61M 34M 23M 59% / > /dev/hda2 182M 15k 173M 0% /tmp > /dev/hda3 7.3G 5.1G 1.9G 73% /var > /dev/hda5 1.8G 717M 1.0G 40% /usr > /dev/hda7 26G 21G 3.6G 86% /home > > debian:/home/merlin# df -i > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 16064 6026 10038 38% / > /dev/hda2 48384 14 48370 0% /tmp > /dev/hda3 977280 977280 0 100% /var > /dev/hda5 244320 43436 200884 18% /usr > /dev/hda7 3489792 290203 3199589 8% /home > > I don't recall the installation process... if there a choice > of setting how many free inodes (as there is, say, with FreeBSD). > > How can I back out and recover from the above, bearing in mind, there's > around 3-4GB of news articles sitting on /var ? > > -- > Darren Wyn Rees > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
