linux-kernel - Re: ext4 no space left

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:53:38 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Victor Pelt <victor.pelt@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 no space left

On Wed 2009-01-21 12:04:23, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:18:35PM +0100, Victor Pelt wrote:
> > i set the number mounted counter to 31, which forced fsck to run on
> > the next reboot. I rebooted, fsck didn't show any erros, but i still
> > got the no space left error when i tried to copy files to the
> > partition.
> 
> OK, if a reboot didn't help, I'll bet I know what happened.  E2fsprogs
> changed the default default inode ratio, which means that number of
> inodes being created is half what it was previously.  If you do a "df
> -i", you'll probably see that you have exhausted the number of inodes
> in the filesystem.

Actually it would be cool if df warned about low inode free space by
default. "df -i" is an old trap, but still effective to these days
:-).
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