On Monday 28 March 2005 18:25, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> I think that's 4 bytes per inode, not 4k. So you made a HUGE number of
> inodes....
>
> > noticed nothing until the partition got full in a few days. Then I
> > checked it and saw with df that it was about 2GB. Where were the other
> > 17GB? Then I newfs'd it without specifying the number if cylinders per
> > inode (I guess...). Now it worked great.
> > Why? Am I missing something obvious?
>
> I think -i 4k would have done better.
>
> Take care,
>
> Bill

Whoa! I made a *tiny* mistake I think ;)
In fact, I wanted to create a filesystem with 4k per inode, not 4 bytes. I had 
misunderstood the newfs man page. Like I said, I was missing something 
obvious! Thank you for the help, it's been very useful.

david