[TriLUG] Failure Copying Large Amounts of Data

Scott Lambdin lopaki at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 13:38:32 EDT 2010


Tar them puppies up?  Then you won't use so many inodes.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:58 AM, <boyle at laue.chem.ncsu.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 16 Apr, Ron Kelley wrote:
> > * What parameters did you use to create the filesystems on B: and C:
>
> Ack, I can't really remember.  Mostly the defaults.  I probably set the
> -m option to 1
>
> > * What does "fdisk -l" provide
> Here is the output for filesystem A (/dev/sdb1) and B and C (/dev/sdc1,
> /dev/sdc2):
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0001c75d
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1       19457   156288321   83  Linux
>
> Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x1b645464
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdc1               1       30395   244147806   83  Linux
> /dev/sdc2           30396       60801   244236195   83  Linux
> bruker:/~% view /etc/fstab
>
>
> > * what does "df -i" give you (assuming both B: and C: are mounted)
>
> Ack, here is where the problem becomes obvious:
>
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3             983040    7816  975224    1% /
> udev                  127601    1146  126455    1% /dev
> /dev/sda1             131072      49  131023    1% /boot
> /dev/sda9            5513216    2091 5511125    1% /home
> /dev/sda8             262144   18845  243299    8% /opt
> /dev/sda5            1310720  183510 1127210   15% /usr
> /dev/sda6            1310720   19481 1291239    2% /usr/local
> /dev/sda7             131072    2354  128718    2% /var
> /dev/sdb1            19546112  344096 19202016    2% /smb
> /dev/sdc1            15261696      11 15261685    1% /media/backup1
> /dev/sdc2             238592  238592       0  100% /media/backup2
>
> /dev/sdb1 is "A", /dev/sdc2 is "B".
>
> I guess I have to recreate the filesystems.  Any suggestions or tips?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
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