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 1Ra6ty-0005yw-LU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:30:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D2A321C151; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.shawcable.com (shawmail.shawcable.com [64.59.128.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8EE121C05E for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bpd2mi5no-svcs.prod.shawcable.com ([10.0.184.160]) by bpd2mo1no-ssvc.prod.shawcable.com with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2011 07:29:34 -0700 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.1 cv=t+ZAJ7mrPn0ghCTQRrYVa3vbw5sbuRhC9KBpKnc45f0= c=1 sm=1 a=wom5GMh1gUkA:10 a=2aS7xn65_L4A:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=BLceEmwcHowA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=dgx804EzjhD8CRYpIFkhZA==:17 a=ehL4pePP7oY6dNZvShUA:9 a=M5hORzdF5Pz5IwAE3NkA:7 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,339,1320649200"; d="scan'208";a="350061257" Received: from unknown (HELO bpd2mi5no-cmts.prod.shawcable.com) ([192.168.183.160]) by bpd2mi5no-cmts.prod.shawcable.com with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2011 07:29:34 -0700 X-reinject: true Received: from unknown (HELO syscon4.localdomain) ([68.148.245.78]) by bpd2mi5no-dmz.prod.shawcable.com with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2011 07:29:34 -0700 Received: by syscon4.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B9A0B1CD191; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:31:28 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:31:28 -0700 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached Message-ID: <20111212143128.GO3810@syscon4.inet> References: <4EE5E268.9090404@admin-box.com> 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; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EE5E268.9090404@admin-box.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: d0b0d28b-55d4-4b4c-90d9-cd0034f54d2c X-Archives-Hash: 2dcce2d89a503786ead672e95e06767e On 12/12/11 12:15, Daniel Troeder wrote: >Hello :) > >I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and >/var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to >move that some weeks ago, because the fs was "full". Now it's "full" >again, though it has free blocks. But no inodes are left: > >$ fsck -vf /dev/sda5 >[..] > 655360 inodes used (100.00%) >[..] > >$ find /gentoo -xdev | wc -l >655338 > >That's really disappointing. I was using reiser3fs and XFS before, and >they didn't have that kind of limitation... Uhm... not meant as a rant - >I like ext4 - that's why I'm moving (almost?) everything to it... > >Is there any way to raise the number of inodes without using >$ mkfs.ext4 -N BIGNUM > >Thank you, >Daniel That is scary. I just install new HD with 2TB capacity and ext4 that is 2% full and: $ find /home/joseph/ -xdev | wc -l shows: 169977 that is 26% full. So will run out of inodes before I run out of hard disk space :-/ that is not good. If other filesystems don't have these kind of limitation I'll be switching. -- Joseph