On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 09:00 +1300, Roy Britten wrote: > What I learned yesterday: it's possible to run out of inode space > before you run out of disk space. In my case, in a system with lots of > old versions in /usr/src it eventually became impossible to create > files, even with plenty of disk space available. > > df -h showed adequate available space > df -i showed IFree of (almost) 0
This is more likely on backup partitions using software that creates regular snapshots whilst using hard links to save space for unchanged files. From what I remember, they're set in stone too... reformat to change. However, you do have to go some even then as the defaults are still from the days where 1MB was a huge file. Maybe ext4 and other modern formats have changed this - I haven't looked into it lately. I do recommend monitoring - cacti, munin or similar - for aything important though. They'll warn you of these things. Steve -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MIITP http://www.greengecko.co.nz Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveholdoway Skype: sholdowa _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
