No space left on device ?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Jun 16 15:01:52 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 15:34:25 +0200,
  Luc MAIGNAN <luc.maignan at winxpert.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i was despite while seeing the message 'no space left on device' because a 
> 'df' gives me 12 Go available !!!
>
> I did also a 'df -i' and I see 100% of inodes used !!!
>
> so :
>
> * how can I have all inodes used and so spaces available ?
> * is there a way to fix it ?

That limit gets set when you create the filesystem. I took a look at tune2fs
and it doesn't appear you can change the inode limit after the fact.

However, it is pretty unusual to use up all of the inodes on a file system.
Are you expecting there to be that many files on your file system?




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