Re:Laura Poitras Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance
by _jomo on Friday February 05, 2016 @12:50PM
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> it tells her its hard drive is full despite seeming to have 16 gigabytes free.
If she has a lot of small files she might have run out of inodes [0] which will report "no space left on device" when trying to create a new file, although there's still space left. Inodes store a file's attributes. In ext4 they're limited to total disk space / 16Kb, so a lot of files <16kb will cause trouble.
If she has a lot of small files she might have run out of inodes [0] which will report "no space left on device" when trying to create a new file, although there's still space left. Inodes store a file's attributes. In ext4 they're limited to total disk space / 16Kb, so a lot of files <16kb will cause trouble.
You can check inode usage via `df -i`.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode