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On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:23:41PM +0000, d.zanon@infinito.it wrote:
> Hello!
> I am seeing a strange thing on -current/macppc. Is it normal to happen?
> I have got a=20
> 8:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home            39845888 @ 53448832 ( 19.0G) S2  U=
FS k0=20
> (pdisk)
>  g:  39845888  53448832     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.  53024*- =
=20
> 92554*)
> (disklabel)
> partition, which as you can see is 19GB.
> When I executed newfs -O 2 -i 4 /dev/wd0g, the operation was successful a=
nd I=20

I think that's 4 bytes per inode, not 4k. So you made a HUGE number of=20
inodes....

> noticed nothing until the partition got full in a few days. Then I checke=
d it=20
> and saw with df that it was about 2GB. Where were the other 17GB? Then I=
=20
> newfs'd it without specifying the number if cylinders per inode (I guess.=
..).=20
> Now it worked great.=20
> Why? Am I missing something obvious?

I think -i 4k would have done better.

Take care,

Bill

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