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:
>> 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.
>
> That's why I said you need a very recent kernel, it was added relatively
> recently:
>
> commit 6c31b93a14a453c8756ffd228e24910ffdf30c5d
> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
> Date:   Fri Nov 28 14:23:32 2008 +1100
>
>    [XFS] allow inode64 mount option on 32 bit systems
>
> I believe this went into 2.6.29.
>
thx, i will try ASAP
> -Eric
>
>



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