On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 06:53:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/20/07 18:13, Kevin Mark wrote: > > A general Linux question: why does Linux report 'out of space' error > > when it runs out of inodes? Can't it distinguish between the 2 > > conditions to give the correct message or is there some other issue? > > Just curious as I just go this after making 1,000,000 small test files > > and got this (du -m -i). > > Out of inode space in the "control blocks"? > > What filesystem are you using? How big is the partition? At what > number does it fail? > output of 'df -i -m': Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 1032192 640567 391625 63% /home I just deleted most of the files but before I was using 100% of the inodes of the ext2 partition. -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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