Re: Free space question

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 16:38, Seth Mos wrote:
> On 1 May 2002, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> > Just for kicks you could try using xfs_growfs to bump the inode maxpct a
> > bit, although from df -i I don't think that's the problem...
> 
> Do you happen to know if maxpct inodes is based upon size of the fs or
> just a constant?
> 12 could be interpreted as 12.5% which would be exactly half.
> 
> And that sounds fishy to me.

The maximum inode percentage defaults to 20 or 25% of the disk space
as inodes. So the maximum number of inodes you see in df -i is a
function of the size of the filesystem.

It is possible to run out of inode space before this percentage has
been reached - inodes are allocated in 8K chunks, there may not
be space for another 8K chunk. That does not appear to be the case
here.

Steve


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