AW: VFS No free inodes

Klaus Dombrofsky (KDombrofsky@compuserve.com)
Fri, 19 Sep 1997 02:55:05 -0400

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>i got a kernel-error: kernel: VFS no free inodes - contact linus
ummm... if this is the error I think it is, it basically means that your
"disk
is full",
or rather, you have too many files on your disk. This can be fixed by
re-initializing your partition (note that this will erase all data!) with
more inodes-per-sector (mke2fs has a command line option for this),
deleting
lots of *small* files, or adding a new disk and moving stuff.

- Erik Lindsley
ITTC, Univ. of Kansas

-- 
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THIS IS THE PROBLEM:
df -i says: Filesystem           Inodes   IUsed   IFree  %IUsed Mounted on
               /dev/sda1            1572864   58572 1514292     4%  /


These are inodes of the ext2-fs on the raid.


But cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr  ( growing and growing ) shows at the
same time: 4007


It seems that there are different inode-numbers, one for ext2 and other for
VFS.
Is that right ?? ( Sorry about my questions, but I am no kernel-specialist
.)


Are there processes, which could influence these inodes ? ( nfs, samba,
inn,....)




[Dombrofsky Klaus]