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 1M9rZx-0005og-Nx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 02:12:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03C99E04F9; Fri, 29 May 2009 02:12:16 +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 BD5D5E04F9 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 02:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so5475900ewy.34 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 19:12:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.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:message-id; bh=XdJctwOhv8hS9O0zakeHa/lS64pXpfgYbQkzINytgGY=; b=bUVKMoheJzP3aO3P3y+a9VFQ0gEDJoWln48Hn06gUZQkYBfUk7sTYugGvdrapeEJQl XVtDhYMsEcCWQCeNgNfR7NWtrnA9AVQXiP+mWB7rRi+AglfWpU9zIJdzxpmfgZTEIf7e BUxTg0HAh5fjZtg5e8mKhwHh4VnPeGZHzWT/c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=EOhAwflUICdaLCoySjm/WNEfzckYv3hWKBu40jhv4nYxeMoMd80+FPFhE8wn8qtBoB 00JnFHavcXhAFh/8GT87698HIYAATIM67WHiEW7VpRBNl7K6prW9gqUQN6Ndxk0/8r1W 9M+wNx+KY/JQGCH1mKoCDm+BmXplHMNIESAyA= Received: by 10.210.36.8 with SMTP id j8mr1817917ebj.5.1243563135000; Thu, 28 May 2009 19:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm1021423ewy.68.2009.05.28.19.12.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 28 May 2009 19:12:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 04:12:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.29.4r4; KDE/4.2.87; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A1EB8F9.3080905@f_philipp.fastmail.net> In-Reply-To: <4A1EB8F9.3080905@f_philipp.fastmail.net> 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 Message-Id: <200905290412.13311.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2f16555c-3ae4-4790-a4d7-c5ad348f64b9 X-Archives-Hash: c3a532116476080b788d21273c024e78 On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Florian Philipp wrote: > Maxim Wexler schrieb: > > 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. > > > > Maxim > > That you run out of inodes doesn't mean that you run out of physical (or > logical) space on your disk. It just means that you run out of what you > could call file descriptors. > > There is exactly one inode per file which stores meta information about > this file. Ext2-4 have a fixed amount of inodes set when you format the > partition. Reiserfs and JFS create them on the fly and therefore don't > have problems with running out of inodes or wasting space on unused ones. > > Most likely you have a bunch of very small files on our disk, for > example the portage tree. These don't consume much space but a lot of > inodes. > > My advice: Save everything to another disk and then reformat the > partition with a higher amount of inodes. If you use ext2, format it with > > mke2fs -N 732960 /dev/sda2 > > This will create a file system with three times as many indoes as you > had before. > > Hope this helps. or don't use extX.