Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 28 May 2009 17:46:03 Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk
> fails: No space left on device.
>
> df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong.
> Lots of 'No space left on device messages'  with reference to
> /var/lib/iinit.d/* in the boot console. And this gem: '*ERROR: local
> is already starting'. And: '*ERROR: netmount is already starting'.
>
> df -i
>
> Filesytem    Inodes       Iused         IFree      IUse%      Mounted on
> /dev/sda2   244320      244301          19       100%       /
> udev           128448           612   127836            1%       /dev
> /dev/sda1       8032             39       7993            1%       /boot
> tmpfs           128448              3  1 28445            1%       /tmp
>
> FYI sda2 is formatted ext3.
>
> I know 4G is pretty small by today's standards but apart from xorg and
> firefox everything else on this unit is command-line type utilities
> and such. That can't account for 4G already.

Your problem isn't that you have no more space.

Your problem is that you cannot create any more files.

Inodes - google it.


>
> Maxim

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