[SOLVED]inode exhaustion - need help recovering the install

stardotstar · Last edited by stardotstar on Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:06 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi guys,

I have run out of inodes on my main root drive despite trying to keep everything on other volumes - now I am trying to work out a good way to transfer the whole root fs to an external disk, format and recreate the root with more inodes and then transfer everything back.

In the past I have successfully migrated root partitions around using dd but that will not help here will it>?

Is there a cp with appropriate switches I can use to avoid permission/symlink/dev/proc file problems in recovering this otherwise carefully built initial gentoo install?

Many Thanks
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Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21706

Using dd would create an exact image of the filesystem, complete with its shortage of inodes. I suggest using tar with the --one-file-system option to avoid having it traverse into other partitions.

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

stardotstar · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:32 am Post subject:

Good points!

So I am rebooting into the sysresccd and then will cp -a the partition to another after a dd for fallback!

Cheers guys. Thank You.

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stardotstar · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:05 am Post subject:

Worked a charm!

Thanks guys1
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