From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 08:13:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 08:13:28 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:49415 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 08:13:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:13:20 +0100 From: Russell King To: Jens Christian Skibakk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jens.c.skibakk@hiof.no Subject: Re: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,77)) in ext3_new_inode: error 28 Message-ID: <20020520131320.B22425@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:07:34PM +0200, Jens Christian Skibakk wrote: > When I unpack a tar-archive containing many files (about halv a million) > this errors occures in the dmesg output: > EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,77)) in ext3_new_inode: error 28 ENOSPC - you're out of inodes > and the program complins about: No space left on device, but df -h shows > that there is over 1G free on the hd. try df -i (for inodes) > After this error occurs the hd contains errors and need to be checked. That's a bug in ext3 - it has (apparantly) been fixed in the CVS version. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html