On Sep 3, 2013 10:51 AM, "William Kenworthy" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 03/09/13 11:26, [email protected] wrote:
> > William Kenworthy <[email protected]> [13-09-03 05:08]:
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> >> Have you run out of inodes? - ext 4 has had very mixed success for me
on
> >> solid state. Running out of inodes is a real problem for gentoo on
> >> smaller SD cards with standard settings.
> >>
> >> BillK
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Does this error message from fsck indicate that? I am really bad in
> > guessing what fsck tries to cry at me ... ;)
> >
> >
> >>> solfire:/root>fsck.ext4 -f -p /dev/sdb2
> >>> rootfs: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list
found.
> >>>
> >>> rootfs: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> >>> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> >>> [1] 18644 exit 4 fsck.ext4 -f -p /dev/sdb2
> >>>
> >>>
> > Is there any way to correct the settings from the default values to
> > more advances ones, which respect the sdcard size of 16GB *without*
> > blanking it...a "correction on the fly" so to say???
> >
> > And if not: Is there a way to backup the sdcard and playback the files
> > after reformatting it by preserving all three time stamps of the
> > files (atime is deactivated via fstab though) ?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > mcc
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> df -i - if you get 100% iUSE or near to it thats your problem ... I have
> seen that error message you give as a result of running out of inodes
> corrupting the FS.
>
> No, your only way out is to copy (I use rync) the files off, recreate
> the fs with max inodes ("man mke2fs") and rsync the files back. Once an
> ext* fs has been created with a certain number of inodes its fixed until
> you re-format.
>
> I get it happening regularly on 4G cards when I forget and just emerge a
> couple of packages without cleaning up in between packages. On 16G
> cards, its compiling something like glibc or gcc that uses huge numbers
> of inodes at times. On a single 32G card I have, the standard settings
> have been fine ... so far :)
>
> Billk
>
>
While you're considering of formatting the flash disk, consider also
whether ext3/4 is suitable.
When I first use Gentoo, I got bitten by inode exhaustion several times, so
I used an inode-less fs (reiserfs, to be precise).
I have no idea if reiserfs is suitable for a flash disk, though.
Rgds,
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