Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED!! Re: Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. But ran out of inodes. :-(
Hi Dale, on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:44:54PM -0500, you wrote: How do you run out of inodes anyway? I use reiserfs for most partitions except /boot and portage. My /data partition has 75,000 files and 3,600 directories. No problems so far but not near as many files as you have. You can adjust the number of inodes to create at mkfs using -i, -N or -T which are just different ways of doing the same thing. Lowering the number of inodes wastes less disk space if you know you're not going to write many files anyway. This feature bit me once when I set up a -Tlargefile4 partition (i.e. one inode per 4 MiB of disk) for videos. As it happens, I had to misuse it for backups at some point and was very puzzled when df showed 3% used space but even touch gave me a no space left on device error. tarring the stuff I had planned to just copy solved it and would prolly have been faster in the first place :) cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpvA54BVEYxS.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] FIXED!! Re: Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. But ran out of inodes. :-(
Hi, Dale and everybody else! On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:23:59AM -0500, Dale wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Just in case you are talking about editing the files in profiles, that won't work long term. Keep in mind that each time you run emerge --sync those files will be overwritten. It is not a good idea to edit anything in /usr/portage since it will update when you sync again. If you want to enable/disable features in the profiles, do that in make.conf instead. DONE. It worked too, after fixing another problem (see below). That is where you put in your final wishes. Example: cups is enabled as a USE flag in the profile and you do not want cups enabled. Put -cups in your make.conf and it should be disabled. The reverse is also true. If you want cups but it is disabled in the profile, you can add cups to your USE line in make.conf and it will be enabled. Hope that helps. It helped a great deal, thanks! With about 9 packages to go, I started getting disk full messages, even though my (sole) partition had well over 1Gb free. It turns out I'd ran out of inodes. Curious. But the only application which has any data at all yet is portage. ;-) I haven't looked in detail where all these little files are - I suspect they're largely under /var - but dumpe2fs /dev/hdh5 gave: Inode count: 250976 === Block count: 1002046 Reserved block count: 50102 Free blocks: 354807 Free inodes: 58 === First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size:4096 It seems I have 250,918 files in ~650,000 blocks. That's a _lot_ of files, most of them flea sized. So I formatted another ext3 partitions, with 2048 byte blocks and ~1,000,000 inodes, copied all the files across, rebooted into Gentoo and I was able to finish intalling xfce4. It's nice! I need to get firefox now, and I'll probably let that run overnight. ;-) Comparing the two partions with df immediately after the bulk copy, I got this: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdh5 3945128 2525880 1218840 68% /mnt/hdh5 == Old /dev/hdh10 3882172 2069020 1612744 57% /mnt/hdh10 == New Maybe 1024 byte blocks would have been even better. Or would it be a good idea to format the partition-with-all-the-little-files with Reiser. Does Reiserfs have static limits on numbers of files? It's supposed to be very good at handling lots of midget files. Dale :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED!! Re: Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. But ran out of inodes. :-(
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Dale and everybody else! On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:23:59AM -0500, Dale wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Just in case you are talking about editing the files in profiles, that won't work long term. Keep in mind that each time you run emerge --sync those files will be overwritten. It is not a good idea to edit anything in /usr/portage since it will update when you sync again. If you want to enable/disable features in the profiles, do that in make.conf instead. DONE. It worked too, after fixing another problem (see below). That is where you put in your final wishes. Example: cups is enabled as a USE flag in the profile and you do not want cups enabled. Put -cups in your make.conf and it should be disabled. The reverse is also true. If you want cups but it is disabled in the profile, you can add cups to your USE line in make.conf and it will be enabled. Hope that helps. It helped a great deal, thanks! With about 9 packages to go, I started getting disk full messages, even though my (sole) partition had well over 1Gb free. It turns out I'd ran out of inodes. Curious. But the only application which has any data at all yet is portage. ;-) I haven't looked in detail where all these little files are - I suspect they're largely under /var - but dumpe2fs /dev/hdh5 gave: Inode count: 250976 === Block count: 1002046 Reserved block count: 50102 Free blocks: 354807 Free inodes: 58 === First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size:4096 It seems I have 250,918 files in ~650,000 blocks. That's a _lot_ of files, most of them flea sized. So I formatted another ext3 partitions, with 2048 byte blocks and ~1,000,000 inodes, copied all the files across, rebooted into Gentoo and I was able to finish intalling xfce4. It's nice! I need to get firefox now, and I'll probably let that run overnight. ;-) Comparing the two partions with df immediately after the bulk copy, I got this: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdh5 3945128 2525880 1218840 68% /mnt/hdh5 == Old /dev/hdh10 3882172 2069020 1612744 57% /mnt/hdh10 == New Maybe 1024 byte blocks would have been even better. Or would it be a good idea to format the partition-with-all-the-little-files with Reiser. Does Reiserfs have static limits on numbers of files? It's supposed to be very good at handling lots of midget files. Dale :-) :-) I'm glad I finally opened my mouth and helped someone. O_O Miracles still happen. How do you run out of inodes anyway? I use reiserfs for most partitions except /boot and portage. My /data partition has 75,000 files and 3,600 directories. No problems so far but not near as many files as you have. Maybe a file system guru will come along. Dale :-) :-)
