Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!
On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 21:45:28 -0800
unruh@physics.ubc.ca (unruh) wrote:
> In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:51:26 -0600
> > Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >> Food for thought: your /dev/sda7 is an EXT filesystem of 26GB with 1.7M
> >> inodes. XFS would give you ~23M inodes on a 26GB filesystem.
> >
> > An ext[2-4] filesystem can be created with any desired number inodes by
> > invoking 'mkfs.ext[2-4] -N nnn'.
>
> Irrelevant in this case. It is almost certainly a misconfigured
> logrotate (eg filename* as the file pattern) which exponentially grows
> the number of inodes. No number would be enough.Each day the number of
> files double. You cannot win against an exponential.
Yes, it's irrelevant to this case - but your comment is irrelevant
to my point, which was merely to counter the implication that XFS has
some advantage over ext* in the matter of inodes.
Celejar
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