there seems to be an awful lot in /log/snort

I am currently rsyncing the entire /var filesystem to another box over
the lan. then i'll reformat /var/ and rsync it all back.

and i'll make plenty of inodes

Thanks to all for the qwuick help

On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 10:16:59 +1200
Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 10:08, you wrote:
> > Help!! my ipcop box has run out of inodes on the /var partition, which
> > has an ext3 filesystem?
> 
> man mkfs
> he say:-
> 
>        -N number-of-inodes
>               overrides the default calculation of the number of  inodes  that
>               should  be  reserved  for  the filesystem (which is based on the
>               number of blocks and the bytes-per-inode  ratio).   This  allows
>               the user to specify the number of desired inodes directly.
> 
> You have to either back-up the data and re-create the filesystem with more
> i-nodes, or delete some of the files. The later is probably the best in your case.
> There will presumably be "_thousands_" of records created by the current virus 
> and worm.
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely etc.,
> Christopher Sawtell
> 

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