Jim Holthaus wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Mike Bergen wrote: > > You hit the nail on the head. How do i cure this? > > Each file you create, regardless of its size, uses an inode up. When a > filesystem is created by mkfs a default ratio is used to determine how many > inodes should be created. Since you are running out of inodes, you need to get > a large number of files off of the full filesystem. The size of the files is > hardly important -- just the number. You can delete the files, or move them. > Another option is to archive a lot of little files that aren't used into a tar > archive and then delete the individual small files. The archive itself will be > one bigger file. Don't know if it's a bug in Mandrake or if it's the usual behavior of Linux, but my /var/log/mail dir was extremely full of files. I'm actually tar'ing them right now to free up some inodes _and_ space (wow... 57MB in total), but I can't see how and why 127000 inodes should be used... Could anyone with knowledge of this please respond and perhaps come up with a solution? Thanks in advance. -- Stig-�rjan Smelror Systemutvikler Linux Communications AS Sandakerveien 48b Box 1801 - Vika N-0123 Oslo, Norway tel. +47 22 09 28 80 fax. +47 22 09 28 81 http://www.lincom.no/
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