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Date:      Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:49:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      "E. Lakin" <pharaoh@u.washington.edu>
To:        questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   root out of inodes - but me and "df" disagree!
Message-ID:  <Pine.A32.3.95.961101103317.129204A-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu>

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i've _just_ installed freebsd, and am getting some odd behavior w/
inodes... 
an example: 

$ touch /tmp/foo

/: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
touch: /tmp/foo: no space left on device

however, this doesn't equate with what df says:

$ df -i
Filesystem  512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a       196958    26638   154564    15%     779   29939     3%   /
/dev/sd0s1f    1608062   760528   718890    51%   30771  168907    15%   /usr
/dev/sd1s1e     845054       10   777440     0%       6  107512     0%   /usr/home
/dev/sd0s1e      98462     1042    89544     1%     157   15201     1%   /var
procfs               8        8        0   100%      16     164     9%   /proc

ack...anyways, here's some background info:
up until yesterday, i'd been using a DTC 3274 SCSI card, which emulated a
1540. It's emulation was less than perfect, so i got an adaptec 2842A
card, reformatted the hard drives, and installed FreeBSD. Installation
went smoothly (3 times it went smoothly) but always my root partition
"runs out" of inodes. i haven't experienced any other partitions running
out if inodes...yet.

also of note: thinking that something went wrong w/ the HD the root
partition was on, i booted into single-user mode, and ran fsck...it did
give a single error on the root partition (and only the root partition) -
but i don't remember what it was. and when i ran fsck multiple times, it
kept getting the same error.
(i'll find out what the error was in case anyone needs it)

so, if anyone has ideas about what is going on here, i would greatly
appreciate it!

	--eric lakin




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