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Greetings!
I've been lurking here for agood little while, thanks to all for their help, even though they didn't know it, reading through everything has been incredibly beneficial.
I have setup my DNS-323 according to the Rsync time machine style instructions on the wiki page, for both HD_a2 to HD_b2 backup, and for PC1 and PC2 to HD_b2 backup, and I LOVE it.
My problem is this: All was going along swell for a few weeks, but now I have a "No space left on device" error whenever I try to do anything on disk 2. (can't even mkdir)
root@dlink-0B62A8:/mnt# du -Lsh HD_b2
269.5G HD_b2
root@dlink-0B62A8:/# df -h /mnt/HD_b2
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 929.9G 269.7G 660.2G 29% /mnt/HD_b2
root@dlink-0B62A8:/# df -hi /mnt/HD_b2
Filesystem Inodes Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 232.5k 232.5k 0 100% /mnt/HD_b2
I'm using the WD drives with the 4k clusters, "fixed" per the instructions on the forum, and that all seemed to be working fine...
I've tried to find information on Inodes, but all i can seem to find is they are important, and you need to have some free. Is there a way to transfer some of my free disk space to inode space? I'm not opposed to reformating the disk, since it's my backup.
Any thoughts?
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you formated it wrong, your inode count is too low (choosed wrong ext profile with too high inode ratio). probably while 'fixing' it. you have to reformat. a usual ext fs has 1m inodes per 100gb.
Last edited by oxygen (2010-08-18 17:44:39)
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If you'd like to be sure, try this from the command-line:
tune2fs -l /dev/sda2
I imagine you followed one of the guides to realign partitions to 4K boundary, and created the file system using something like this:
mke2fs -j -m 0 -T largefile4 /dev/sda2
If you'll look at the [b]largefile4[\b] settings in /ffp/etc/mke2fs.conf you'll see that inode_ratio is rather high. It is appropriate if you mostly store large files.
I don't think you can change that without backing up your stuff and recreating the file system with a different configuration.
If I understand correctly, you use this partition as a backup, with the rsync snapshot. If you've been doing this for a while you've probably accumulated a ton of backups which mostly consist of hard-links, which use inodes.
If it's an option, deleting old snapshots should make it much better.
Last edited by scaramanga (2010-08-18 18:26:48)
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