On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, henry nelson wrote:

> I've been trying to just unpak (not use) pkgsrc.tar.gz, but it won't go on
> the partition I made for it.  I tried: "gzip -dc pkgsrc.tar.gz | tar xf -",
> "cat pkgsrc.tar.gz |(cd /usr; tar xf -)" and "pax -zrpe -f pkgsrc.tar.gz".
> In every case, it stops with a message like:
> /usr/pkgsrc: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
> tar: Could not create file pkgsrc/ ... link2.mk: No such file or directory
> Yet, if I do `df`, that partition shows up as:
>           1K-blocks  Used  Avail  Capacity
> /dev/sd0e   190600  107988 73082    59%    /usr/pkgsrc

Try "df -i" to see inode usage too.

> Is it because pkgsrc has a huge number of very small files?  Could I use

It has many files. I don't know if I counted right (as listed in
CVS/Entries so I wouldn't count my extra junk), but I came up with 41049
files.

You also need to consider when you extract distfiles and during a build.
(You can choose another filesystem for your pkgsrc work with WRKOBJDIR
setting if needed.)

> tunefs(8) or fdisk(8) to somehow increase the number of inodes without
> increasing the size of the partition?  (If yes, how, i.e., what options?)

Have a look at newfs -i switch when making a new filesystem.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/