No space left on device on xfs filesystem with 1.6TB free

Bryon Roche kain at kain.org
Wed Jan 21 11:49:26 CST 2009


On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:33:10 +0000, Owen Dunn wrote:

> I'm running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2, on a 32-bit i386 Linux
> machine with kernel version 2.6.16.60-0.33-smp.  I appear to have
> version 2.9.4 of xfsprogs.
> 
> I have a 6TB xfs filesystem which has been grown twice from 2TB, and
> which appears to have 1.6TB and plenty of inodes free.  However,
> attempts to create a new file fail with ENOSPC:
You probably need to mount with inode64 then, to allow xfs to make inodes 
in the later space in the FS.




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