Subject: Re: 1.4.3 upgrade base package fails
To: Iggy Drougge <optimus@canit.se>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/13/2001 10:33:37
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:02:51AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> No, I've managed to all but forget about that mechanism in UNIX FSes.
> Still, I deleted src/sys, shouldn't that free up a whole lot of inodes?

Yes it should. But maybe there's a lot of new files too.
Also remember that for files that are open (most likely executables and
shared libs in your case), the inode and assiciated blocks are not freed until
the file is closed.

Did you check the filesystem with fsck ? Did you check lost+found ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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