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On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Maxim Wexler schrieb: |
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> > Hi group, |
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> > |
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> > For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk |
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> > fails: No space left on device. |
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> > |
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> > df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. |
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> > Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with reference to |
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> > /var/lib/iinit.d/* in the boot console. And this gem: '*ERROR: local |
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> > is already starting'. And: '*ERROR: netmount is already starting'. |
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> > |
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> > df -i |
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> > |
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> > Filesytem Inodes Iused IFree IUse% Mounted on |
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> > /dev/sda2 244320 244301 19 100% / |
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> > udev 128448 612 127836 1% /dev |
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> > /dev/sda1 8032 39 7993 1% /boot |
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> > tmpfs 128448 3 1 28445 1% /tmp |
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> > |
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> > FYI sda2 is formatted ext3. |
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> > |
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> > I know 4G is pretty small by today's standards but apart from xorg and |
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> > firefox everything else on this unit is command-line type utilities |
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> > and such. That can't account for 4G already. |
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> > |
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> > Maxim |
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> |
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> That you run out of inodes doesn't mean that you run out of physical (or |
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> logical) space on your disk. It just means that you run out of what you |
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> could call file descriptors. |
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> |
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> There is exactly one inode per file which stores meta information about |
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> this file. Ext2-4 have a fixed amount of inodes set when you format the |
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> partition. Reiserfs and JFS create them on the fly and therefore don't |
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> have problems with running out of inodes or wasting space on unused ones. |
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> |
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> Most likely you have a bunch of very small files on our disk, for |
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> example the portage tree. These don't consume much space but a lot of |
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> inodes. |
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> |
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> My advice: Save everything to another disk and then reformat the |
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> partition with a higher amount of inodes. If you use ext2, format it with |
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> |
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> mke2fs -N 732960 /dev/sda2 |
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> |
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> This will create a file system with three times as many indoes as you |
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> had before. |
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> |
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> Hope this helps. |
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or don't use extX. |
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