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To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange Linux behaviour!?
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Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 21:44:29 +0200
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From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
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On Fri, 07 May 2004 19:30:08 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:

> What happens when Linux runs out of inodes?  Why would it?  Doesn't it 
> create more?

For many filesystems, the number of inodes *on* *disk* is set at
mkfs time.

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Pascal