strange df behaviour

[Marcel]

Am Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2009 22:01:39 schrieb ivvmm:
> Hello list,
>
> found strange df behaviour. I'm using my micro sd which came with FR
> only for openstreetmaps. As a result it is filled with great amount of
> them.
>
> The filesystem on it is ext3. The df program from virtualbox reports it
> is filled 84%. But one cannot write there, because no space is
> available. Outputs:
>
>
> root at om-gta02 ~ $ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/root               252544    142744    109800  57% /
> none                     60428        56     60372   0% /dev
> shmfs                    60428         0     60428   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mmcblk0p1          479836    382001     73061  84% /media/card
> volatile                 60428      1572     58856   3% /var/volatile
>
>
> root at om-gta02 ~ $ echo tetetette > /media/card/te
> -sh: can't create /media/card/te: No space left on device

All the small files might have used up all the inodes (?) on the 
filesystem. I'm not into all that filesystem terms, but filesystems have a 
maximum count of files that can be stored. OSM tiles are very small files, 
but there are tons of them, so that might be the reason.

--
Marcel