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 08:52:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 08:52:03 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:64775 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 08:52:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:51:57 +0100 From: Russell King To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,77)) in ext3_new_inode: error 28 Message-ID: <20020520135157.A22815@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020520131320.B22425@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> 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 01:13:20PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > 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. BTW, it might be a good idea to post the output of: tune2fs -l (from your message above, should be /dev/hdb13 ?) I've seen one instance where mke2fs got the inode allocation wrong. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html