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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes
From: Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@gmail.com>
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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 <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> 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.
>
>