Reduce Inode number in UFS filesystem.

[jdhinze]

Is there any way to reduce the number of Ibnodes without re -partiooning the disk. I currently have an File system and want to the inode count below 65000 for some custom software.<br><br>Thanks<br>

 

[AndyBo]

I don't think there is any way of doing what you ask with an existing filesystem.&nbsp;&nbsp;If there was, I would hesitate about telling you about it anyway, because I-nodes are the foundation of the whole filesystem.&nbsp;&nbsp;Messing with I-nodes can seriously affect the existence of your data...<br><br>The safest way would be to create a new filesystem with the required number of I-nodes and then copy your data across.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you can't do this due to lack of available disk, back up your data (at least a couple of times); do a mkfs on the existing partition, setting the required number of I-nodes, then restore the data. <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>--<br>
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[SEngineer]

Not sure exactly why your software requires this or what you need to do with it, but you may want to look into LCSi SAM/fs if you have no reason to stay with UFS alone and this may give you some other storage benefits in the way of efficiencies and tape migration.