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Old 06-30-2010
Question inode table in sun solaris

Hi,

I would like to is it possible to repair inode table in solaris without running fsck? I am facing this issue in root file system, because to run fsck I have to bring system in single user mode with booting cdrom media.

I facing strange issue in /var/adm/messages it is showing inode table full , but while running df command it is showing file system free space.

Please suggest me how to resolve this issue?
# 2  
Old 06-30-2010
Run the below command to know the inodes status of root FS.
df -o i /

It appears that all the inodes are used, and no more files can be created.

Free space is available because of the data blocks which are still there to be linked to the existing inodes when a file needs to be grown.
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Old 06-30-2010
Can you post the exact error message, the matching line from /etc/fstab and "df -ki" for the filesystem in question.
# 4  
Old 07-01-2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vishalaswani
Run the below command to know the inodes status of root FS.
df -o i /

It appears that all the inodes are used, and no more files can be created.

Free space is available because of the data blocks which are still there to be linked to the existing inodes when a file needs to be grown.
Hi Vishal,

Thanks for your quick help i have checked the output of above command it was showing inode full. after that I have deleted the files, but still issue persists.

Regards,

Manoj
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Old 07-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by manoj.solaris
Thanks for your quick help i have checked the output of above command it was showing inode full.
Please post "df -i" output.
Quote:
after that I have deleted the files, but still issue persists.
Which files did you delete ?
It might be a process that creates new files constantly.

Last edited by jlliagre; 07-01-2010 at 06:55 AM..
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Old 07-01-2010
Please post sample error messages from /var/adm/messages and any error messages you see. Don't paraphrase - just post the exact error message.

Remember that there is one inode table for every mounted filesystem. This is why people are asking to see the output from various "df -i" commands. If you need to save the output to a file it must of course be saved to a filesystem which has free inodes. If you are having trouble with say the "more" command this suggests that "/tmp" is affected.
If you are getting random failures across multiple filesystems this could be a kernel parameter issue.
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Old 07-02-2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
Please post sample error messages from /var/adm/messages and any error messages you see. Don't paraphrase - just post the exact error message.

Remember that there is one inode table for every mounted filesystem. This is why people are asking to see the output from various "df -i" commands. If you need to save the output to a file it must of course be saved to a filesystem which has free inodes. If you are having trouble with say the "more" command this suggests that "/tmp" is affected.
If you are getting random failures across multiple filesystems this could be a kernel parameter issue.
I am getting below messages in /var/adm/messages.

ID 682040 kern.notice] NOTICE: /: out of inodes

Please suggest.
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