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Date:      Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:32:39 +0100 (BST)
From:      Quintin Oliver <quintin@smlt.com>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: out of inodes?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.980908153142.13291A-100000@orion.smlt.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980907111613.C25129@scientia.demon.co.uk>

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Hi,

On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote:

> To explain it basically, each file has an inode. So if you have thousands
> of 1 byte files, you'll run out of inodes, although you may have loads
> of disk space left. Someone else can probably explain it better than me.

No, that did the trick, I understand what the problem is now :)

> (The bit I missed out is that two hard linked files have the
> same inode, which is why they are identical copies. I think file
> owner/group/permissions/date, etc, are associated with the inode, rather
> than the filename, but I could be wrong.)
> 
> $ df -i
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
> /dev/wd2s1a    139656    35805    92679    28%    1358   37040     4%   /
> /dev/wd2s2e   3038961   732990  2062855    26%   50251  687027     7%   /usr
> /dev/wd2s3e   1519472   245799  1152116    18%   52245  316393    14%   /var
> procfs              4        4        0   100%      33     147    18%   /proc
> 
> One million inodes free altogether, that should last me a while :-)

:) Humph!


Cheers,

Quintin.


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