inode

[Gert Cuykens]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:13:09 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas
<keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2005-03-16 13:05, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is a inode ? I installed freebsd 5.3 on a 2gb harddisk and it
> > tells me there are not enough inodes ? Aldo there is diskspace
> > availeble ?
> >
> > Does it mean there are to many directories ? Can you fix this ?
> 
> i-nodes are the areas where the file system saves information such as
> the owner, the size and pointers to the data area of a normal or special
> file or a directory.
> 
> 2 GB is a lot of space for a virgin FreeBSD installation.  The base
> system takes up to 170 MB on a clean disk here.
> 
> - Have you tweaked the newfs options that sysinstall used?
> - Have you installed any extra packages?  How many and which?
> 

No i just installed 5.3 i386 base and ports and there is plenty of
freespace on all default partitions availeble but when i do mkdir it
tells me no inodes availeble.