On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:06:37PM -0400, Chris Gackstatter wrote: > I did the 'df -I' > > I have over 5Mil inodes in one of my partitions is that excessive. If so > what do I do about it?
This is unclear... Is that over 5 million used, free, or total? If that's 5,000,000 free or total, don't worry about it. The number of inodes in a filesystem is the maximum number of files/directories it can hold (each file/directory uses 1 inode), so it's better to have too many than too few. If you're really trying to squeeze every last bit of space out of the drive, it might be worth trying to reduce the inode count, but it's generally not worth the effort. If it's 5,000,000 used, that's another story... You need to find where those millions of 0-byte files are and delete them. If it's on the affected partition, /var/log is a good place to start looking, as suggested earlier. After that, I'd probably check /var/tmp and the various subdirectories under /var/spool (especially any that are related to print or mail daemons), then everything else under /var before looking at anything else. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html)
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