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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:03:38
Message-Id: 200809022003.35118.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing by kashani
1 On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, kashani wrote:
2 > Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 > > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
4 > >> you have space left, but the inodes are all used up.
5 > >>
6 > >> Typical problem for fs like extX.
7 > >
8 > > What fs should I use instead? For future reference what's the current
9 > > standard?
10 >
11 > I would verify that you are actually out of inodes before attempting to
12 > fix that problem. df -i should show you your inode usage.
13 >
14 > As everyone else has stated ext3 is set to keep 5% of the disk available
15 > for root by default and that is likely what the issue is. I would not
16 > change this as ext3 and most other file systems start having severe
17 > fragmenting issues at 90% usage and up.
18 >
19 > kashani
20
21 with 5% reserved for root he would see 5% free.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing felix@×××××××.com