[lug] Can't write but 56% free?

[D. Stimits]

Barney Treadway wrote:
> 
> jeez I was just trying to figure out statfs :-( df -i is much nicer!
> 
> Definitely got none left, I thought I had "boosted" my available to 100K
> thinking that was enough, guess not. This sure seems liek a ton considering
> that partition is some maildirs, no web content, and some stupid commerce
> cgi program???
> 
> [root at www1 barneymail]# df -i
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1             256512  256512       0  100% /
> /dev/hda6             128768      23  128745    0% /tmp
> /dev/hda5             897600   76970  820630    9% /usr
> /dev/hda7            1026144   28885  997259    3% /var
> /dev/sda1            4480448   79372 4401076    2% /home
> 
> So I'm pounding out ->:
> echo "350000" >/proc/sys/fs/inode-max and getting the same number in df -i,
> any idea why it won't stick on 350K for me?

I think you are trying to change the max nodes in terms of what the
kernel or some part of the system is willing to work with, whereas what
you are out of are inodes on the partition itself. If you want to up the
number of inodes on ext2, I *think* you probably have to reformat it,
although there are probably special (read dangerous) tools to boost it
(growfs or partd I think?). One of the nice things about the XFS
filesystem is that it can self-grow nodes if it needs them. Long story
short, you might be advised to backup somewhere, reformat, and then
restore, using a higher inode density during the format.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> MANY MANY MANY thanks already for your help!!!
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bear Giles" <bgiles at coyotesong.com>
> To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [lug] Can't write but 56% free?
> 
> > > [Charset Windows-1252 unsupported, skipping...]
> >
> > You may be out of inodes.  Try 'df -i'.
> >
> > Bear
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