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.

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