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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:24:01 -0700
From: "Sean T. Lamont" <zeno@itchy.serv.net>
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Subject: Can somebody explain this one to me?
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bouvier# touch /test
/: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
touch: /test: No space left on device

bouvier# df -i
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a       32254    12782    16890    43%     829    3009    22%   /
/dev/sd0s1e     75366     5992    63344     9%     123   10819     1%   /var
/dev/sd0s1f    734046   331366   343956    49%   19602   68716    22%   /usr
/dev/sd1c     1034927   596149   355983    63%    7676  245762     3%   /usr/homeroot/logs
procfs              4        4        0   100%      55     989     5%   /proc

ok...let's try and free up an inode. I don't use ppp, so let's get rid
of /etc/ppp

bouvier# rm -rf /etc/ppp
(theoretically this should have freed 6 or 7 inodes, right?)

bouvier# touch /test
/: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
touch: /test: No space left on device

this is FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE (BOUVIER) #0: Fri May 17 00:53:48 PDT 1996




...Any insight would be appreciated .

and rebooting the system -did not- fix the problem.