partition full (or not)

[shimi]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:09 PM, shlomo solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> For some strange reason, df -i doesn´t give any useful info.
>
> [solomon at shlomo1 ~]$ df -i
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1                  0       0       0    -  /
> /dev/sda6                  0       0       0    -  /boot
> /dev/sda11                 0       0       0    -  /data1
> /dev/sda12                 0       0       0    -  /data2
> << snip snip >>
>

Perhaps you're using reiserfs ?

>
> But I doubt that´s the problem, because, as I wrote, when I boot from a
> live
> CD, the partition is almost empty. And, in any case, the partition only has
> /bin, /etc, /lib, /opt, /var, and other standard things. So I don´t see any
> reason to run out of inodes.
>
>
What about a swap file being added as a file on the root partition when the
system loads, and removed when it goes down? Typical to the OS from Redmond,
but one might do that in Linux as well...

-- Shimi
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