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Subject: Re: What are major and minor number and inodes From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:34:36 -0400 (EDT) On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 Gerald_P_Jackson@notes.seagate.com wrote: > What are major and minor number and what do they do? Major and minor numbers are used to identify device drivers. The kernel knows devices by their major and minor numbers and associates drivers with major/minor number combinations. > What are inodes and what do they do? Inodes are the records the filesystems use to locate and identify files. An inode contains the modes (see chmod(1)); user and group ownership (see chown(1)); modification, access, and update times; attributes (see lsattr(1)); the file size; and a pointer to the start of the file, among other things. Basically, the inode contains the file "metainformation"; it describes the file. ============ Subject: Re: No space left on device From: Zhenhua <zhenhua@megapro.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:50:57 -0500 (CDT) On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > Try "df -i" to check on your inode count. You may be out of > inodes if you have a LOT of little files. I tried it and got: Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree %IUsed Mounted on /dev/sda2 1028096 44493 983603 4% / /dev/sdb2 1028096 8746 1019350 1% /disk2 Looks like the disk has plenty free inodes. =========