Re: Strange Linux behaviour!?

From: Richard B. Johnson
Date: Sat May 08 2004 - 08:31:25 EST


On Fri, 7 May 2004, Pascal Schmidt wrote:

> On Fri, 07 May 2004 19:30:08 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:
>
> > What happens when Linux runs out of inodes? Why would it? Doesn't it
> > create more?
>
> For many filesystems, the number of inodes *on* *disk* is set at
> mkfs time.
>
> --
> Ciao,
> Pascal
> -

You are being suckered in. "Out of inodes", roughly translated,
means "disk or disk partition is full". You can use `df -k` to
see.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5557.45 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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