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Journaling file systems revisited



Glenn Burkhardt writes:

> P.S.  Some of our older systems have only ext2, and have gotten into a funky 
> state that fsck doesn't fix.  No files can be created (file system full), but
> existing files can be read.  'df' reports plenty of free space, 

If df reports plenty of free space, then the filesystem isn't really full.
However, if all the i-nodes were used up, you wouldn't be able to create
any more files regardless of the available space. 


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