Temporary workaround for (was Re: out of inodes... new install)
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Aug 6 10:51:02 PDT 2004
A temporary workaround using the existing (broken) installer is to
go through the steps normally until you reach the point where it wants
to install files. At that point it will have newfs'd the filesystems
but not yet mounted them.
At this point you can flip to another console, login as root, and
re-newfs the partition /usr is on. So, e.g. for George it would be
either (if you want 300-400K inodes):
newfs -U -f 2048 -b 16384 /dev/ad0s2f
or (if you are ultra conservative and want 700K inodes):
newfs -U -f 1024 -b 8192 /dev/ad0s2f
Then flip back to the installer and tell it to start installing files.
Note that if you bring in /usr/ports that's ~168K files, so it might
be prudent to use 1024/8192.
-Matt
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