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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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      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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