tunefs question

[Rasheed Tamton]

System hp-ux 10.20
I have an HFS filesystem (/home) which has almost 20% free disk space (around 100MB). But I get inode error in the syslog.
When I did bdf -i /home; I can see there is no inode left.

What are the options I have to increase the inode with tunefs or is there any workaround for this.

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

take a look at next doc,

http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062684131

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[Pete Randall]

Rasheed,

Number of inodes is set at file creation time with the -i option of newfs (see man newfs_hfs). The only way to change this will be to create a new file system. If you have the room you can create a new file system, copy the contents of /home into it, switch the mount points in /etc/fstab, and reboot. If you don't have the extra space available, you'll have to deal with /home itself: unmount it, newfs it, remount it, etc.

At the same time, I would encourage you to consider making it a VxFS, or Journalled, file system. Then you won't have to worry about inodes.


Pete

[Rasheed Tamton]

Thanks for Robert-Jan & Pete Randall. The link for the doc which was submitted by Robert-Jan has given me the right answer.
As a temporary solution I extended the filesystem by adding 200MB and I got around 25% more inodes free.
Permanent solution is to follow Pete's suggestion.

Rasheed.

[Rasheed Tamton]

rasheedp@excite.com