From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Victor Pelt <victor.pelt@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 no space left
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:53:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090127105338.GA21011@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090121170423.GJ31253@mit.edu>
On Wed 2009-01-21 12:04:23, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:18:35PM +0100, Victor Pelt wrote:
> > i set the number mounted counter to 31, which forced fsck to run on
> > the next reboot. I rebooted, fsck didn't show any erros, but i still
> > got the no space left error when i tried to copy files to the
> > partition.
>
> OK, if a reboot didn't help, I'll bet I know what happened. E2fsprogs
> changed the default default inode ratio, which means that number of
> inodes being created is half what it was previously. If you do a "df
> -i", you'll probably see that you have exhausted the number of inodes
> in the filesystem.
Actually it would be cool if df warned about low inode free space by
default. "df -i" is an old trap, but still effective to these days
:-).
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-21 14:19 ext4 no space left Victor Pelt
2009-01-21 14:55 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-21 15:18 ` Victor Pelt
2009-01-21 17:04 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-21 18:15 ` Victor Pelt
2009-01-21 20:46 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-27 10:53 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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