Re: 'out of space' vs 'out of inodes'?

From: Kevin Mark <kevin.mark(at)verizon.net>
Date: Sat Jul 21 2007 - 00:17:26 EDT

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 06:53:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 07/20/07 18:13, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > A general Linux question: why does Linux report 'out of space' error
> > when it runs out of inodes? Can't it distinguish between the 2
> > conditions to give the correct message or is there some other issue?
> > Just curious as I just go this after making 1,000,000 small test files
> > and got this (du -m -i).
>
> Out of inode space in the "control blocks"?
>
> What filesystem are you using? How big is the partition? At what
> number does it fail?
>

output of 'df -i -m':

Filesystem           Inodes   IUsed   IFree    IUse% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1            1032192  640567  391625   63%   /home

I just deleted most of the files but before I was using 100% of the inodes of the ext2 partition.
-K

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