Im giving a go fedora silverblue on a new laptop but Im unable to boot (and since im a linux noob the first thing i tried was installing it fresh again but that didnt resolve it).

its a single drive partitioned to ext4 and encrypted with luks (its basically the default config from the fedora installation)

any ideas for things to try?

  • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    No, those inodes still won’t clear on their own - sure, you’ll be able to prolong for a few weeks or months, but then you’ll reach a point where you’ll end up with just a single generation, and you can do nothing to clear space. The device will mislead you with free space, but they are not accessible, neither can you try to force freeing space by running disk operations manually where the stores are present - because a) that’s a bad idea and b) you’ll not have the permission to. That’s what happened to me, and I had to reinstall the entire system again.

    Besides, deleting generations regularly would defeat the point of having a rollback system. Sure, for normal desktop usage, you could live with preserving the last twenty to thirty generations, but this may be detrimental for servers that requires the ability to rollback to every generation possible, or low-end platform constrained with space, and therefore, limited generations.

    • mvirts@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      20 or 30 generations 😹

      I have space for 1 😭

      Edit: you’ve got me worried now, is the behavior you’re referring to normal running out of inodes behavior or some sort of bug? Is this specific to ext4 or does it also affect btrfs nix stores?

      I’ve run across the information that ext4 can be created with extra inodes but cannot add inodes to an existing filesystem.

      • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 month ago

        From Re: Guix System ext4 index full:

        Vincent Legoll 写道：

        I think the filesystem (or directory) is full of inodes.

        No, but it’s a similar hard limit, and one that not even ‘df -i’ will warn you about.

        Ext4’s dir_index feature uses hash tables to look up directory entries, so that for directories with a very large number of items (like /gnu/store!), the kernel doesn’t have to do the horribly slow equivalent of:

        for i in *; do …; done

        Unfortunately, once that hash table fills up, the premier stable Linux file system just… gives up and refuses to write any more data. In a very cryptic way.

        The large_dir flag ‘increases the limit’ (the man page does not say by how much) but it doesn’t go away.

        Your hash table is full of eels,

        T G-R