change number of inodes in a filesystem?

From: Mike (mikee_at_mikee.ath.cx)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:49:51 -0000

I have one filesystem that has lots of small files in it and
the inode percentage runs higher than I want. I suspect the
only way I can change the number of inodes is to destroy and
re-create the filesystem. Is there another way to do this?

Mike

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