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Re: 'out of space' vs 'out of inodes'?



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On 07/20/07 18:13, Kevin Mark wrote:
> A general Linux question: why does Linux report 'out of space' error
> when it runs out of inodes? Can't it distinguish between the 2
> conditions to give the correct message or is there some other issue?
> Just curious as I just go this after making 1,000,000 small test files
> and got this (du -m -i).

Out of inode space in the "control blocks"?

What filesystem are you using?  How big is the partition?  At what
number does it fail?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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