RE: {bb} "no space left on device"

["Boward, George F." <gfboward@nmlc.med.navy.mil>]

Ah-HA!  Df -i.  I should have read the man page.

On the partition in question I get:
Inodes: 2223872
Iused:  2210016
Ifree:  13856 

Looks pretty low.  How do I fix it?  I tried cleaning off a bunch of files
and I tried an fsck, but these numbers tell me it didn't work.  I imagine I
could move the data off, rebuild the file system (with lots more inodes),
and move the data back on.  Is there an easier way?

MANY thanks.

Ted.

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik-bb@hswn.dk] 
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:36 PM
To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: Re: {bb} "no space left on device"

In <B434CA79EF7F5C419DACB809C4BA568D0C9306@nmlc5.nmlc.med.navy.mil> "Boward,
George F." <gfboward@nmlc.med.navy.mil> writes:

>	Please pardon the fact that this is not really a Big Brother
question.  
>I started getting a "no space left on device" error any time BB tried 
>to create a file even though df says the partition is only 56% full.
>Of course, since bb creates LOTS of files, I got LOTS of these errors, 
>and I'm still trying to undo the damage.  I'm running bb 1.9e on Fedora
Core 2.

>	Is anyone familiar with this error, how to fix it and how to prevent

>it?

You could be running out of "i-nodes" on your filesystem. (An "i-node"
is more or less a directory entry/filename, and if you use the default Red
Hat Linux filesystem ext2 or ext3, the number of available i-nodes is
determined when the filesystem is generated).

Try running "df -i" and see if that is the problem.


Henrik
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Henrik Storner
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