Manuel Bouyer wrote:-

> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:19:26PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> > I've just got this message on a raided /usr partition (contains the
> > NetBSD source code and lots of .o files).  It's only 16% full!
> > 
> > Is the only way out of this to re-build the filesystem, after
> > shuffling stuff around in a most painful way?
> 
> Yes, unfortunably.

The scary thing is that running out of inodes gave me fs corruption: I
couldn't remove a couple of directories (it complained they weren't empty)
and rm -r gave errors about bad file descriptors.  It was only fixed
with a fsck and a large part of the xsrc/ tree in lost+found.

Neil.