I suspect you are out of inodes on /. News services are notorious for
consuming all the available inodes on a partition, because they consist of
lots of small files. You need to backup this partition and re-build the
filesystem with smaller blocks.
from the INN FAQ:
Subject: Out of inodes but still space left on disk
If you have still space on your disk but no more inodes then you should
consider rebuilding the partition on which your spool is. Default options
for filesystems are mostly to use 4k / inode. For a newsfs this isn't
appropriate, as articles are in average under 3k. So create your newsspool
with 2k per inode. If you rebuild you also could adjust the values for
block-/fragsize to 4096/512 so you'll get more space out of your disk than
on 8192/1024 (this will be a bit slower than 8k/1k for articles bigger
than 4k, which are a minority so don't use it on a partition dedicated to
alt.binaries)
mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Usage: /sbin/mke2fs
[-c|-t|-l filename] [-b block-size] [-f fragment-size]
[-i bytes-per-inode] [-N number-of-inodes]
[-m reserved-blocks-percentage] [-o creator-os] [-g blocks-per-group]
[-L volume-label] [-M last-mounted-directory] [-r fs-revision]
[-R raid_opts][-s sparse-super-flag] [-qvSV] device [blocks-count]
Stew Benedict
>
> I guess this is somethign serious.. I have 100Mb left.. but rpm, cron jobs
> that run at night etc. cannot write to my / partition!! As I have emailed
> here before, every morning I have cron jobs running!! I have to kill them
>
> Here are some pointers so that you guys can help...
>
> 1. Check the size of mail and news directory under /var
>
> drw------- 3 root root 5042176 Sep 26 15:25 news/
> drw------- 2 root root 8466432 Sep 27 10:05 mail/
>
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