From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 10 20:32:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA6D16A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:32:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web52108.mail.yahoo.com (web52108.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 741CE43D31 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:32:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from idfubar@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20041010203253.52625.qmail@web52108.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.234.212.214] by web52108.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:32:52 PDT Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:32:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Rishi Chopra To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: out of i-nodes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:32:54 -0000 When attempting to build a custom kernel, I ran into the following error message: /usr: create/symlink failed, no inodes free Assembler messages: FATAL: can't create buffer.o: No space left on device *** Error code 2 When I use 'df', I noticed something strange: [13:29:20][root@usha:/]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 771M 36M 674M 5% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1e 786M 606M 118M 84% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 193M 92K 178M 0% /var /dev/ad4s1 78G 55G 23G 71% /fat32/audio /dev/ad4s2 108G 50G 58G 47% /fat32/video [13:29:22][root@usha:/]$ df -i Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 789518 36376 689982 5% 924 116834 1% / devfs 1 1 0 100% 0 0 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1e 805366 620498 120440 84% 117758 0 100% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 198126 92 182184 0% 16 25838 0% /var /dev/ad4s1 81903456 58047680 23855776 71% 0 0 100% /fat32/audio /dev/ad4s2 113407296 52760448 60646848 47% 0 0 100% /fat32/video [13:29:24][root@usha:/]$ How can I be out of inodes for my 800MB /usr partition? I didn't modify anything from the standard minimal installation and only installed the ports tree, CVSUP, and /src/sys afterwards. ===== Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail