Re: filesystem shrinks after using xfs_repair

[Eli Morris <ermorris@xxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 29, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Emmanuel Florac wrote:

> Le Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:22:30 -0700 vous écriviez:
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>> I tried filling up the disk with data to see if that worked Ok and it
>> did, up until this point. There is something I don't understand going
>> on though. 'df' says that I have 381 GB free on the disk, but I can't
>> write to the disk anymore because it says it there isn't any space
>> left on it. Is this some insane round off error or is there something
>> going on here?
> 
> You probably ran out of inodes. Do you have many small files?
> 
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Hi,

I checked the inodes with this command, and it looks like I have plenty left. 
It's this entry, '/dev/mapper/vg1-vol5'.  

[root@nimbus ~]# df -hi
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2               6.2M    208K    6.0M    4% /
/dev/sda5               219M    452K    218M    1% /export
/dev/sda2              1001K    5.5K    996K    1% /var
tmpfs                   4.0M       1    4.0M    1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg1-vol5    1.5G   1020K    1.5G    1% /export/vol5
/dev/sdb1               127M     42K    127M    1% /storage
tmpfs                   4.0M     629    4.0M    1% /var/lib/ganglia/rrds


thanks,

Eli