[ale] Help - DEB Pkg Hell

[JD]

CRAP!  You were completely correct! 97% inodes used.
Ruby gems suck inodes.

$ df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             247504  228703   18801   93% /

After cleaning a few files, I was able to clean up some kernel packages
too.  On that one box, everything is fine, but the issue on the other
machines is definitely different.

What's the moral to this story?  On dev systems, you probably do not
want the default FS settings.

"You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish."



On 05/21/2011 08:41 AM, Jeff Gehlbach wrote:
> On May 21, 2011, at 7:58 AM, JD wrote:
> 
>> It claims there is no space left on the device ... there is over 1G free.
> 
> This message is pointing to what I would bet is the actual problem: your filesystem has run out of inodes.
> 
>> $ df
>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda1              3890452   2607088   1085732  71% /
> 
> Try running "df -i" to display inode usage.  Example:
> 
> jeffg at mail1:~$ df -i
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5            60653568 1001908 59651660    2% /
> tmpfs                 507485       4  507481    1% /lib/init/rw
> udev                  506300     532  505768    1% /dev
> tmpfs                 507485       1  507484    1% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda1              18072     243   17829    2% /boot
> 
> This often happens as a result of having one or a handful of directories full of many tiny files.  A good place to start your search is usually /var.
> 
> -jeff

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