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

Jens-Christian Skibakk (jens.c.skibakk@hiof.no)
Mon, 20 May 2002 15:40:44 +0200


The df -i shows that there are now unused inodes.

SO I need to reformat my hd to have more inodes?

Jens-Chr.

Morten Helgesen 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
> >
> > and the program complins about: No space left on device, but df -h shows
> > that there is over 1G free on the hd.
>
> Can you please paste the output from 'df -h' and 'df -i' ?
>
> >
> > After this error occurs the hd contains errors and need to be checked.
> >
> > The filesystem on the hd is ext3.
> >
> > I have tested this with to kernel-verions, on both 2.4.18 and
> > 2.4.19-pre8-ac3 the error occurs.
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