Re: ntpd message

[Ben Goren <ben@trumpetpower.com>]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:54:15PM -0700, Ralph Forsythe wrote:

> > I am  getting the  following message  every hour,  can someone
> > shed some  light on what  is all about and  how to get  rid of
> > them. Thanks.
> >
> > Mar  8   21:57:54  "hostname"   /bsd:  uid0   on  /:   out  of
> > inodes  Mar  8  21:57:54   "hostname"  ntpd[9850]  can't  open
> > /etc/ntpd.drift.TEMP: No space left on device
> >
> >
> > Mar  8   22:57:54  "hostname"   /bsd:  uid0   on  /:   out  of
> > inodes  Mar  8  22:57:54   "hostname"  ntpd[9850]  can't  open
> > /etc/ntpd.drift.TEMP: No space left on device
>
> How full is your drive?
>
> Run 'df' and see if your / partition is full.
>
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Alex Lee wrote:

Make that ``df  -i.'' There might or might not be  free bytes left
on the drive, but there're no more inodes available to make use of
those bytes. An  inode holds  important information about  a file,
and you need  one inode per file. (Links of  various kinds deserve
mention here but won't get  one from me now. Tphbbbbt.) A two-byte
file takes one  inode; a two Gigabyte (or Gibibyte,  as NIST would
have us say) file takes one inode.

If there  are a lot of  itsy-bitsy files on the  disk--you'll know
because you'll  have a much  higher percentage of bytes  free than
inodes--then you'll  need to become  one with the newfs  man page,
back up, format,  and restore. Don't leave out the  newfs man page
step! It'll  tell you  how  to allocate  a  greater proportion  of
inodes.

Good luck, and let us know if you get stuck along the way.

b&

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