Joseph writes: > On 12/12/11 12:15, Daniel Troeder wrote: > >Hello :) > > > >I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and > >/var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to > >move that some weeks ago, because the fs was "full". Now it's "full" > >again, though it has free blocks. But no inodes are left: > > > >$ fsck -vf /dev/sda5 > >[..] > > 655360 inodes used (100.00%) > >[..] > > > >$ find /gentoo -xdev | wc -l > >655338 > > > >That's really disappointing. I was using reiser3fs and XFS before, and > >they didn't have that kind of limitation... Uhm... not meant as a rant > >- I like ext4 - that's why I'm moving (almost?) everything to it... > > > >Is there any way to raise the number of inodes without using > >$ mkfs.ext4 -N BIGNUM > > > >Thank you, > >Daniel > > That is scary. I just install new HD with 2TB capacity and ext4 that is > 2% full and: > $ find /home/joseph/ -xdev | wc -l > shows: 169977 that is 26% full.
No, that is 26% of the number of total inodes _Daniel_ has on his small partition. Yours is bigger, so you have more inodes. My largest partition has 724G, and 46 million inodes. Use df -i to see how many you have. > So will run out of inodes before I run out of hard disk space :-/ that > is not good. If other filesystems don't have these kind of limitation > I'll be switching. Having too few inodes has been a problem for me in the past. But that was either a tiny partition for the portage tree, which has so many small files. Or the partition where I back up my /var partition with rdiff-backup, so it also has lots of files, and with each backup the same amount gets added. If you intend to place unusually many files on a partition, check how many inodes mkfs has created, and re-create the file system using the -N option, giving it a somewhat larger number. Wonko