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Date:      Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:18:10 +0100 (BST)
From:      George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org>
To:        burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: more problems with 4.3 install
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106081913140.57389-100000@sobek.openirc.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106081021090.4390-100000@westhost43.westhost.com>

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On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com wrote:

[...]
> pid(...) (mv), uid 0 on /mnt/var; out of inodes
> 
> I -think- that's exact (excepting the package name and pid number), I'm
> cribbing from late-night notes.
> 
> ANYHOO, my thought was "out of SPACE? I've got 13GB to play with! What
> gives?"

"Out of inodes" doesn't mean you're out of space, it means you have too
many files on the filesystem. An inode is allocated for every
file/directory, hence you can run out of inodes without filling the disk
to capacity.

The sensible solution is obviously to install only what you need.

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