Ok, thanks everybody, getting ready to dive in and fix this thing. Two more questions please:
I modified the bottom of /etc/fstab to look like this according to a post in the eee forum: ... #shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,sosuid,noexec 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 Does this have anything to do with the inode issue? What's the best fs for a 4G SSD? I picked ext3 because of another eee forum post. Maxim On 5/28/09, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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. > >
