From: Timothy Wall <twall@tiac.net>
To: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: missing space on ext2fs scsi drive
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 08:50:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37DE4485.8208318@tiac.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.3.96L.990913223653.9981F-100000@unix47.andrew.cmu.edu
Yup, that's the problem. It seems the installer short-inoded me.
Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Timothy Wall wrote:
> >
> > I've run into an odd problem that I'm not quite sure how to diagnose.
> >
> > My root partition (a 2Gb partition on an 8Gb drive) shows (with "df")
> > around 55% usage (2203440 1k-blocks, a little over half used) and yet
> > fails complaining that the disk is full. I don't recall exactly how I
> > partitioned the disk (probably pdisk).
> >
> > Is my ext2fs accounting screwed? Why does the FS think there is no
> > space when writing, but show space with "df" ?
>
> Run 'df -i'. This shows you your inode usage. Full, isn't it? Time to backup,
> reformat (with mke2fs), and reinstall.
>
> -Hollis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-14 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-14 1:45 missing space on ext2fs scsi drive Timothy Wall
1999-09-14 1:54 ` Joseph Garcia
1999-09-14 2:38 ` Hollis R Blanchard
1999-09-14 12:50 ` Timothy Wall [this message]
1999-09-14 20:02 ` Hollis R Blanchard
1999-09-14 22:15 ` Timothy Wall
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