Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:32:39 +0100 (BST) From: Quintin Oliver <quintin@smlt.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: out of inodes? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980908153142.13291A-100000@orion.smlt.com> In-Reply-To: <19980907111613.C25129@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Hi, On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote: > To explain it basically, each file has an inode. So if you have thousands > of 1 byte files, you'll run out of inodes, although you may have loads > of disk space left. Someone else can probably explain it better than me. No, that did the trick, I understand what the problem is now :) > (The bit I missed out is that two hard linked files have the > same inode, which is why they are identical copies. I think file > owner/group/permissions/date, etc, are associated with the inode, rather > than the filename, but I could be wrong.) > > $ df -i > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on > /dev/wd2s1a 139656 35805 92679 28% 1358 37040 4% / > /dev/wd2s2e 3038961 732990 2062855 26% 50251 687027 7% /usr > /dev/wd2s3e 1519472 245799 1152116 18% 52245 316393 14% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% 33 147 18% /proc > > One million inodes free altogether, that should last me a while :-) :) Humph! Cheers, Quintin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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