On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:14:38AM -0700, Alex Franks wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Radford > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:55 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 no inodes left > > Hi All, > > I am running FreeBSD 5.4 and have recently received the following > message on our box for the /var partiton. > No inodes left. > > I have checked the statistics and there was an apache httpd log which > was maxing out the usable space. I have since removed this file and the > available space has dropped to over 50%. However I still get the 'no > inodes left' message even though I have freed the space. > > Does anyone know how I can get the inodes to be freed up on the /var > partition.
Yes. Delete some files. Then, when you have it cleared up temporarily (deleting files is only a brief temporary fix), back the file system up somewhere and remake it. In the newfs command, use bytes, block-size and frag-size arguments to force it to create more inodes in the filesystem and then restore the backup. Possibly just setting bytes=2 will be enough to cover it, but you may also need to set block-size=8192 and frag-size=1024 (which is kind of small). If you run out of inodes, it tends to mean you are creating a lot of small files. This can happen with some utilities that create a new file for each piece of data. But, the default values for bytes, block-size and frag-size usually provide plenty of inodes for most things. So, maybe some job you are running is overdoing creating small files for some reason or you have a database designed less efficiently or something. By using a smaller block and fragment size, you get more inodes, but you make reading and writing large files less efficient. Of course, if you have a hoard of small files, that isn't important. In fact, if the file system if full of small files, then it is less efficient to have large block and fragment sizes. ////jerry > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards > Phil. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
