I'm using emdebian grip lenny. Currently mounting the / over nfs. I've noticed lately (newer kernels maybe?), that on startup I get a lot of udev "No space left on device" errors. Because nothing really broke I ignored this for a little while, but now I'm trying to track down the problem. Sure enough if I just do "touch /dev/hello" I get the "No space left on device" error. If I then do df it says I'm only using 21% of /dev, but then (as was pointed out by mrvn in the irc channel) if I do df -i I get 100% IUse. looking at the usage /dev/.udev/db is taking nearly 100% of this space. So I have several questions:
Where does /dev/.udev/db come from? It's not on the nfs shared filesystem as /dev/.udev/ it's only on the live system. So it must be persistent somewhere else in the fs, why does it then live in the tmpfs? Wouldn't it make more sense for it to live in the normal fs rather than in ram? I don't see any /dev or udev entry in /etc/fstab. How does the system know where and how to create "udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)"? thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
