On Thursday 28 May 2009 17:46:03 Maxim Wexler wrote: > 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.
Your problem isn't that you have no more space. Your problem is that you cannot create any more files. Inodes - google it. > > Maxim -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
