Re: No more space left on device issue

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hello Tobias,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:

> Maxim,
>
> On 21/12/16 22:48, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>>> What I don't understand is why the all the inodes are used at only 71%
>>> of disk usage (11GB left!). There's not much else than Guix there; I
>>> have a documents folder (700 MB with 4k files) and some git
>>> repositories (2.6 GB, 38k files), but that's it.
>> 
>> Not sure, I don’t know of inode usage profiling tools.
>
> There's always ‘du --inode’ (in combination with ‘-s’ if needed) to
> quickly point the finger o' blame in the right direction.

My 37 GiB ext4 partition apparently has a total of around 2.5 M
inodes. Currently (after recently running the garbage collector), its
inodes usage is at 15%:

df -i /dev/sda1
Filesystem      Inodes  IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1      2445984 358647 2087337   15% /

My home dir only uses 56 k inodes:

du --inodes -s ~
56002   /home/maxim

This would suggest that in my case it really was the Guix store which
was responsible for consuming all the available inodes. I'll keep
monitoring it as it progressively fills up again.

Thanks for pointing at the --inodes option of du, I didn't know about
it!

Maxim