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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: File System Full?
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Organization: St. Peter's College, US
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 22:57:55 GMT
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In article <4u2cbg$qtb@access5.digex.net>, briang@access5.digex.net (Brian G.) writes:
> Run a "df -i" and it wil show you how many inodes are available on
> the filesystem as well:
[...]
> If you run out of inodes, you won't be able to create any more files in
> the filesystem, even if you have many megabytes available.
This is true, but at least on BSD/OS 2.1 this is reported as an "out of
inodes" condition:
foo kernel: uid 9 on /news/spool/.0: out of inodes
as opposed to a lack of space condition:
foo kernel: uid 9 on /news: file system full
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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