In message <cad3ce79d9abe6adf2c82359cd75437e@customvisualdesigns.com>, CVD Grou
ps writes:
>So, I figure I have two options: find a way to reformat/repartition the 
>hard drive and do something so that it has more inodes, or reinstall 
>NetBSD.  I'm fine with the former as there's nothing on the system now 
>anyway.  I'm not so cool with the latter.

You're probably stuck with something close to the latter, because
repartitioning tends to involve reinstalls.  At least for a newbie.

>Or... I could just start deleting stuff.  /usr/pkgsrc seems to be the 
>big winner in most amount of files, so I suppose I could delete that 
>and use pkg_add whenever I wanted something.  All I really want is 
>Gnustep, Netatalk, TightVNC, and a couple other things.  Aside from 
>experimentation, I can't think of much I'd use an old 8500 for.

Start by looking at 'df -i'.  The question is not just which directories
have the most files; it's which directories *in /* have the most files.  On
most NetBSD installs, /usr is a separate partition... But /var sometimes
isn't.

My solution is to move everything from /var into /usr/var, and create a
symlink pointing /var to /usr/var.  Add "critical_filesystems_local=/usr" to
/etc/rc.conf and it should work fine.

-s