Re: [Linux-users] On df -i

2014-11-03 Thread C. Falconer
Roy Britten wrote, On 04/11/14 09:00: What I learned yesterday: it's possible to run out of inode space before you run out of disk space. In my case, in a system with lots of old versions in /usr/src it eventually became impossible to create files, even with plenty of disk space available.

Re: [Linux-users] On df -i

2014-11-03 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 09:00 +1300, Roy Britten wrote: What I learned yesterday: it's possible to run out of inode space before you run out of disk space. In my case, in a system with lots of old versions in /usr/src it eventually became impossible to create files, even with plenty of disk

Re: [Linux-users] On df -i

2014-11-03 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Tue 04 Nov 2014 10:20:50 NZDT +1300, C. Falconer wrote: However if you used LVM then you can add more inodes, but only at the same ratio. This is misleading. Correct is that extending a filesystem proportionally extends the number of inodes available in it. You don't need LVM for that. I

Re: [Linux-users] On df -i

2014-11-03 Thread C. Falconer
Volker Kuhlmann wrote, On 04/11/14 12:26: On Tue 04 Nov 2014 10:20:50 NZDT +1300, C. Falconer wrote: However if you used LVM then you can add more inodes, but only at the same ratio. This is misleading. Correct is that extending a filesystem proportionally extends the number of inodes