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

[hank peng]

2009/7/27 Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>:
> 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.
>
I tried -o inode64 option, but kernel gives me error message:
XFS: inode64 option not allowed on this system
I doubt this option can't be used on 32-bit machine.

> 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
>



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