> > I have a shell script that unzips multiple files in a directory. This > directory have 4 subdirectories named 001, ..., 004. Each one have 400 > subdirectories named 001, ..., 400. In each of these 400 subdirectories > I have 400 html files. The file system( using df ) still have enough > space for the unpacking and, when running the 4th directory it prints anerror > like this: > > checkdir error: cannot create 004/022 > unable to process 004/022/04022001.html > > After that, everything that I try to do, like mkdir, etc. does not work.It > says that there's not enough space on the device.
You have probably run out of inodes. Each file or directory needs one. You are trying to create 4*400*400=640000 files. You can check how many inodes are left using df -i By default there are 4096 bytes per inode, which means that for the amount of files you want to store your partition needs to be at least 640000*4/1024=25000 MB in size (neglecting directories). If you really need to put the files in this partition, you need to reformat it and use the -i switch to mkfs.ext2. See man mkfs.ext2. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
