[linux-audio-user] ext3 filesystem

Chuck Martin nrocinu at myrealbox.com
Mon Nov 22 22:51:51 EST 2004


On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:00:42AM -0800, R Parker wrote:
> My hda1 partition is becoming %100 used and I don't
> know why. This began happening after a system lockup
> where I had to power cycle. I made about 9.7Gig of
> space available on the drive but after another lockup
> and power cycle the drive is %100 used again.
> 
> [studio at stepdaddy studio]$ df -H
> Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted
> on
> /dev/hda2              38GB   36GB  118MB 100% /
> /dev/hda1             104MB   21MB   79MB  21% /boot

If you have a lot of small files on the disk somewhere, maybe you ran
out of inodes.  Try "df -i" to see what percentage of inodes are still
available for use.  If you've used them all up, I don't think you can
create more without recreating the filesystem with mke2fs, unfortunately.

Chuck




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