hard task, not enough files ?

der_maddin · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject: hard task, not enough files ?

i'm trying to install gentoo on a hppa system.

after i finally managed to get emerge working
(thanks to the changed profiles it took quite a while)
now i experience problems unpacking things
while emerging.

after some time emerge is running
(actually, i'm still trying to emerge hppa-sources)
tar starts shouting there was no file or directory
where it wants to extract to.

the message is like:
tar: [some dir/file or mkdir command] Cannot open: file or directory does'nt exist.

and in fact, observing things in /var/portage,
there is no directory named as the one tar wants to
dive into...

weird ?

a possible reason maybe a limited number of files,
fsck.ext3 tells me i do have ~ 209000 / 215936 files ...

if this is the reason for this weird behavior, how can i change it ??

i'm confused ...

[edit:]

Yes, after checking it twice, it seems like i'm running out of inodes ...
hmm, how should i get it running, if i can't even emerge the
sources ??

any suggestions what filesystem i should use ?

it's an old 2 GB scsi harddrive, 1.7G for /
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jmbsvicetto · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject:

Hi.

Have you looked at the mkfs.ext3 man page?

der_maddin · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:27 am Post subject:

thanks for the reply.

no, i won't be able to use another disk.
as you may have noticed, the system is
a hp 712/60, hppa architecture.

so the only disk i've got here that would
run in that system is the 2G disk i'm using.

but i did solve the inodes problem for now
by cleaning up /var/tmp/portage
(had some files in there no longer needed)
so i could emerge the kernel-sources and still
have some ( ~ 50.000 ) inodes free.

my aim would be to
- compile a kernel
- install grub, system logger, cron, whatever
- emerge samba

if i could succeed in emerging samba i plan to
move some of the disks contents
(esp. the /usr/portage tree )
to a samba share.

still i'm interested in getting to know if
it would be possible to

- change inodes of exisiting filesystem without loosing the data
- convert filesystem to maybe reiserFS without loosing the data
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pilla · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:

Moved from IG.
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HPRichard · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject:

Out of my experience with Microsoft filesystems in Linux I do not believe in moving /usr/portage to a smb share being a good idea, I very often had problems with the access rights and file ownerships, no idea if this went better with recent samba versions.
I believe that using NFS is the much better option. A friend of mine is on the way of installing a diskless Gecko (712/60) using only NFS, at the moment he is working through the TFTP things. But as you have a disk, you can use palo, which should be much easier. If you want to use /usr/portage via NFS, you can even share the same directory across multiple machines, even when they have different architectures, there are some threads explaining this. This yields in you having to