How to solve "No space left" problem on my 32bit machine?

[Eric Sandeen]

hank peng wrote:
> Hi, folks:
> I have a 2.5T file system formatted with XFS, df tells me it still
> have about 10G space available, but I can't create new files or
> directory any more. Return message is "No space left on this device".
> I searched solution for this problem through google, and found this:
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2005-06/msg00347.html. I think it is a
> known "No space left" problem. I wonder whether it can only
> be solved on 64-bit machine? If on my 32-bit machine, what should I do?

On very recent kernels you can use 64-bit inodes on 32-bit machines; you
can try mounting with -o inode64 t allow this.

Be warned though that some applications use 32-bit stat calls still,
rather than 64-bit variants, and you may have some problems.  You should
file bugs against any such applications that you find...

-eric