Re: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,77)) in ext3_new_inode: error 28

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Mon, 20 May 2002 13:51:57 +0100

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:13:20PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:07:34PM +0200, Jens Christian Skibakk wrote:
> > When I unpack a tar-archive containing many files (about halv a million)
> > this errors occures in the dmesg output:
> > EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,77)) in ext3_new_inode: error 28
>
> ENOSPC - you're out of inodes
>
> > and the program complins about: No space left on device, but df -h shows
> > that there is over 1G free on the hd.
>
> try df -i (for inodes)
>
> > After this error occurs the hd contains errors and need to be checked.
>
> That's a bug in ext3 - it has (apparantly) been fixed in the CVS version.

BTW, it might be a good idea to post the output of:

tune2fs -l <device>

(from your message above, <device> should be /dev/hdb13 ?)

I've seen one instance where mke2fs got the inode allocation wrong.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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