From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9l6I-0003fN-8V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 19:17:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8B50E03FF; Thu, 28 May 2009 19:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4A3E03E5 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 19:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so5225933ewy.34 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 12:16:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=lGEupLq1aXhwJ//k0sg9YDAKz44rsiQMy5SdD2Iet7c=; b=YeE96YA5b+9SngOI70DnKjnNS+5pWFT+MouoxfDK69FcfD2Rx3PRGCrDX7hhYPtHHe +d7xqoOtk4/+u/XUHBubSyqU9PjHfDZLIGZKlmoMQt2Hy54dOKUYg8cSsNFVu+iFfXhD hCmlz5Zi4F9bT1WHVfVLHHSoRTEm0/8H7rtBc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=RcuQqvw9AZgkBZaTeMTRrO6PFpSqPYieWbfJePH4ho71K0C5Gt7qfailubG96j+d1Q KrYRzqQxYs1OaHkbDhzoWUNY1XW+k9twXgo4lFDWDCr+aOq1JZdhxfktMi1HoaBL/sn8 nCN4uMgnv0IDRKH+0OJFnRVDG5vCVNq+YVAGQ= Received: by 10.210.35.17 with SMTP id i17mr1439732ebi.58.1243538213414; Thu, 28 May 2009 12:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-19-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm714968eya.59.2009.05.28.12.16.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 28 May 2009 12:16:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 21:15:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905282115.26716.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4b9efb50-f268-4029-93c8-616fd042f5ec X-Archives-Hash: e8d65478d98b5fef71e8071336a54f7e 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com