Inodes used up
I get several messages a day which say
Inodes: /dev/sda2 (/mnt/windows_c) is 100% full -- 82k of 82k used, 9 remain df -i results Code:
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on sdb7 is 80GB NTFS partition with about 5 files on it. sdb2, which shows no inodes is 40GB vfat with a handful of files. Do I have a problem? Can it be fixed? Thanks Robert |
Yes, you have one of a few problems.
If you run out of inodes, you can't make new files. vfat doesn't actually have inodes in reality, so it shouldn't be an issue, I think. I'd run fsck.vfat (dosfsck) against it, just to pick up any errors that may be there. I think you probably have some kind of filesystem corruption. Also look at.. ils http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/man/ils.html It prints out inode info. Maybe it has some clues. Also what kernel are you running (it may be a bug that was fixed in the newest release)? |
teval,
Thanks for your response. "Yes, you have one of a few problems. If you run out of inodes, you can't make new files." These are ntfs partitions and I do not write to them from Linux. I just mount them so I can access the material stored on them. Also, I am running the latest FC3 kernel. I have discovered that I am not the only one accessing ntfs partitions who has seen this. But I'm still not sure what it means. Thanks Robert |
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