increase inodes on a filesystem HP-UX

[Hari Prasad_1]

Hi friends
This is Hari.
I have an issue where i am running out of "inodes" in a filesystem.(HP-UX)
To my knowledge we cannot increase inodes on HFS .
If it is Vxfs , it generates dynamically.
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But when i type "fstyp /dev/vgxx/volxx" i find "vxfs".
Also i get the alert "inode usage at 99%"
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Can anyone plz suggest on this.


Thanks
Hari

[Thierry Poels_1]

hi,

"inodes" is only relevant to HFS filesystems (nowadays that's mostly only /stand).
VXFS filesystems allocate inodes on the fly when needed.

regars,
Thierry.

[Ashwani Kashyap]

even though its a vxfs file system , someone might have limited the number of inodes during file ystem creation , specially if the file system houses a large number of small files .

Do a fstyp with -v option and see if it reports anything else .

[KapilRaj]

I believe there is a limit to number of inodes even on a VxFS filesystem though theory says it's not.

In your case , I would increase the filesystem little bit to make little more room for inodes.

Regds,

Kaps

[Bill Hassell]

HFS filesystem inodes are all created when the filesystem is initialized (newfs). Once you run out, you can either:

1) unmount the filesystem, extend the lvol and then use extendfs to add the additional space to the filesystem. This will add more inodes.

2) Backup the entitre filesystem, unmount it, then re-create the filesystem with newfs and the -i option. The default is -i 6144, but you can change this to -i 4096 or lower to create a much larger number of inodes for the same space on the disk.