On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Florian Philipp wrote: > Maxim Wexler schrieb: > > Hi group, > > > > For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk > > fails: No space left on device. > > > > df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. > > Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with reference to > > /var/lib/iinit.d/* in the boot console. And this gem: '*ERROR: local > > is already starting'. And: '*ERROR: netmount is already starting'. > > > > df -i > > > > Filesytem Inodes Iused IFree IUse% Mounted on > > /dev/sda2 244320 244301 19 100% / > > udev 128448 612 127836 1% /dev > > /dev/sda1 8032 39 7993 1% /boot > > tmpfs 128448 3 1 28445 1% /tmp > > > > FYI sda2 is formatted ext3. > > > > I know 4G is pretty small by today's standards but apart from xorg and > > firefox everything else on this unit is command-line type utilities > > and such. That can't account for 4G already. > > > > Maxim > > That you run out of inodes doesn't mean that you run out of physical (or > logical) space on your disk. It just means that you run out of what you > could call file descriptors. > > There is exactly one inode per file which stores meta information about > this file. Ext2-4 have a fixed amount of inodes set when you format the > partition. Reiserfs and JFS create them on the fly and therefore don't > have problems with running out of inodes or wasting space on unused ones. > > Most likely you have a bunch of very small files on our disk, for > example the portage tree. These don't consume much space but a lot of > inodes. > > My advice: Save everything to another disk and then reformat the > partition with a higher amount of inodes. If you use ext2, format it with > > mke2fs -N 732960 /dev/sda2 > > This will create a file system with three times as many indoes as you > had before. > > Hope this helps.
or don't use extX.
