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 1MA5x1-0002Hi-3K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 17:33:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E72FE037B; Fri, 29 May 2009 17:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f114.google.com (mail-pz0-f114.google.com [209.85.222.114]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B184E037B for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 17:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk12 with SMTP id 12so1208349pzk.32 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 10:33:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=F+gbTwWdlOXxlGp+LeBWXyss7SYT86dcULHSWui+hr0=; b=PEY1wCqVaMyg/KU+1k753/Nh120VXSmMt8phJhC9QFIAZxiM/BtkjjPZCGXKarjrao Nx9WJj8lAxFXsXzGJvs616dteALqwStTpwo3KpLlS0WoWwziuK+JrHGIb1/bUoyQ6q55 L0htODcCB5pYZcrjSc6w0jcCx9Gp8xfezFpo0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DUbCNWpL/UeAT2Zpj3hlAhhqBau67GvB2lM1uBY4++ChpLS7ayXrpGO9N/wCQFIvNY AOse3/nAXbM7mKQ6wsm86iBdV2lYGUNFeXuehwS0CwvOC6l4WdLnlz3WHclzVDt0fFv+ wdPsT7SJF7ZXx/R2/4qjkZicUMj9/gD+GOSpU= 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 Received: by 10.114.235.16 with SMTP id i16mr4486157wah.164.1243618378466; Fri, 29 May 2009 10:32:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200905290412.13311.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> References: <4A1EB8F9.3080905@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <200905290412.13311.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:32:58 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes From: Maxim Wexler To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b6b97731-efb8-43e0-baf3-38dee2b118af X-Archives-Hash: 89082def3891c8f95c7e75a984a006cd Ok, thanks everybody, getting ready to dive in and fix this thing. Two more questions please: I modified the bottom of /etc/fstab to look like this according to a post in the eee forum: ... #shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,sosuid,noexec 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 Does this have anything to do with the inode issue? What's the best fs for a 4G SSD? I picked ext3 because of another eee forum post. Maxim On 5/28/09, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > 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. > >