[H-GEN] "No space left on device" - 0 inodes

Robert Brockway rbrockway at opentrend.net
Thu Dec 9 14:34:31 EST 2004


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, James Mills wrote:

> My web server, dede has apparently run out of inodes, which is
> supposedly the result of the messages I have been receiving about "No
> Space left on device", despite the fact that there is a good 500M of
> space available according to df -h.
>
> df -i however, reports 0 inodes available to the system.

What filesystem are you using?

One of the resize tools might be able to help you.  It's been 10 years 
since I ran into a problem like this so no idea if the modern resize tools 
deal with it.

The way I would traditionally deal with this is to backup the relevant 
filesystem while the box is in single user mode, shift the data off, 
remake the filesystem with _more_ inodes and move the data back - after 
making sure my backups were good :)

Rob

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