[Mailman-Users] know to mkfs /var/spool with a higher inode

J C Lawrence claw at kanga.nu
Mon Jun 18 20:46:02 CEST 2001


On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:51:18 -0400 
bob  <Puff at NLE" <bob at nleaudio.com>> wrote:

>> Yes, real mail admins know to mkfs /var/spool with a higher inode
>> count than the rest of their systems.  I'll let you guess what
>> percentage of mail admins actually do.
>> 
>> There are quite a few lists out there running off i486 boxes with
>> small disks.  Some of them have nice bandwidth but have horrible
>> disk IO.

> Ok, I'll byte.  man mkfs tells of no options.  HOWTO?

mkfs is a wrapper for the real tool which is filesystem-type
specific.  Do a man on mkreiserfs, mke2fs, or <whatever> as
applicable.

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