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.mlEnglish
    1·
    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