no memory left on deviceForum: Other Help Topics Topic: no memory left on device started by: jpeters Posted by jpeters on Mar. 24 2007,07:06
I'm getting this error when trying to copy/download to my hardrive partition (/mnt/hda3), which has 96% free space left (16 gigs). I have a grub install, formating seems correct (83 Linux), image is on hda1, permissions rw; There's no problem copying to a folder within hda3 (e.g. mnt/hda3/Downloads).If I get rid of a few files on hda3, the system thinks there's enough space and I can once again copy files to it. I get the same results in root. ?? Posted by curaga on Mar. 24 2007,10:27
Looks like you ran out of inodes. Check with df -i (oops. Busybox df doesn't have that.....)You could format it with mke2fs -N 8388608 /dev/hda3 from a livecd with a ratio of about 1 inode per 2 kilobytes... But backup your data first... Posted by jpeters on Mar. 24 2007,20:16
Thanks curaga, I'll look into it. I'm surprised, though, since my understanding is that inodes are independent of directories. /mnt/hda3/Downloads is no problem. There's a finite number available?Interesting....most of the files in /mnt/hda3 have two-digit inode numbers. I'm not sure if that means anything. |