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Journaling file systems revisited



John Abreau wrote:
>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. 

Good point.  'df -i' will let you check inode usage.

				   Bill Bogstad
				   bogstad at pobox.com




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