[ale] Help - DEB Pkg Hell

[Lightner, Jeff]

Only a cod would be bass enough to correct a quip.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey Myers
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 8:08 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Help - DEB Pkg Hell

JD wrote:
> CRAP!  You were completely correct! 97% inodes used.
> Ruby gems suck inodes.
> 
> $ df -i
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             247504  228703   18801   93% /
> 
> After cleaning a few files, I was able to clean up some kernel
packages
> too.  On that one box, everything is fine, but the issue on the other
> machines is definitely different.
> 
> What's the moral to this story?  On dev systems, you probably do not
> want the default FS settings.
> 
> "You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish."

I believe the correct quote is:

You can tune a kernel, but you can't tune a fish..
:)

> 
> 
> 
> On 05/21/2011 08:41 AM, Jeff Gehlbach wrote:
>> On May 21, 2011, at 7:58 AM, JD wrote:
>>
>>> It claims there is no space left on the device ... there is over 1G
free.
>> This message is pointing to what I would bet is the actual problem:
your filesystem has run out of inodes.
>>
>>> $ df
>>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/sda1              3890452   2607088   1085732  71% /
>> Try running "df -i" to display inode usage.  Example:
>>
>> jeffg at mail1:~$ df -i
>> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda5            60653568 1001908 59651660    2% /
>> tmpfs                 507485       4  507481    1% /lib/init/rw
>> udev                  506300     532  505768    1% /dev
>> tmpfs                 507485       1  507484    1% /dev/shm
>> /dev/sda1              18072     243   17829    2% /boot
>>
>> This often happens as a result of having one or a handful of
directories full of many tiny files.  A good place to start your search
is usually /var.
>>
>> -jeff
> 
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