From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 8 11:18:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C7137B403 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:18:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sobek.openirc.co.uk ([62.252.8.250]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010608181811.MNUO283.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.openirc.co.uk>; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:18:11 +0100 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:18:10 +0100 (BST) From: George Reid X-Sender: greid@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: more problems with 4.3 install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com wrote: [...] > pid(...) (mv), uid 0 on /mnt/var; out of inodes > > I -think- that's exact (excepting the package name and pid number), I'm > cribbing from late-night notes. > > ANYHOO, my thought was "out of SPACE? I've got 13GB to play with! What > gives?" "Out of inodes" doesn't mean you're out of space, it means you have too many files on the filesystem. An inode is allocated for every file/directory, hence you can run out of inodes without filling the disk to capacity. The sensible solution is obviously to install only what you need. -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message