BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 11:07:12
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:05:48 -0500
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Frédéric Massot
<frederic AT juliana-multimedia DOT com> wrote:
>
> The problem is that the original file system (ext4) has no inode
> available and increasing the size of an ext4 file system does not
> increase the number of the inode. To have no more inode problem the new
> filesystem is xfs, so I can not copy data with dd.

Just curious: does the content you back up consist mostly of tiny
files without much duplication?   It seems odd to run out of inodes
while still having substantial disk space.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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