paul> up some space, and I'll see how that goes. Is there a way to find 
paul> out how many inodes are free? Some math I can do, given how much 

Is df -i good for your purpose ?
ttyp7:makoto@u  10:53:25/020402(/pkgsrc)> df -ki .
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
/dev/wd1e      181487    64713    113144    36%   43883  139155    23%   /pkgsrc

I also took
  newfs -m 2 -i 1024 /dev/rwd1e
for above filesystem for pkgsrc skelton.
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Makoto Fujiwara