The inode of a file is a data structure on disk that contains vital information about the file, like file owner, file permissions, dates of creation/access/update, pointers to data blocks, etc. The inode size (the number of bytes needed to hold all those info about the file) can be set by the user when formatting a partition using mkfs.ext3, but can not be smaller than 128 bytes.
I think that your problem, though, is not inode size, but the number of inodes that were created when you first did a "mkfs.ext3" on the partition, since when you run out of inodes, you can not create new files. I think the real trick when running the mkfs.ext3 formatting program is to create a nice balance between the number of inodes (number of files you can create) and the number of data blocks (that you can use for the file data). Tuning the various parameters to mkfs.ext3 should do the trick. "man mkfs.ext3" is your friend. Pablo Manalastas --- On Fri, 4/24/09, Nathanael Cariaga <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having problems with the inode size on my debian > 5.0 server... I tried to search the internet to find a work > around on this problem. Below are the results when I typed > df -hi and df -ha. Almost all of the installed applications > has started to fail including squid. I was wondering if > anyone here could give me an advice on how to proceed. > Thanks! > > proxy:~# df -hi > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted > on > /dev/sda1 4.5M 4.5M 42K 100% / > tmpfs 219K 4 219K 1% > /lib/init/rw > udev 219K 854 219K 1% /dev > tmpfs 219K 1 219K 1% /dev/shm > > proxy:~# df -ha > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 71G 24G 44G 36% / > tmpfs 1014M 0 1014M 0% /lib/init/rw > proc 0 0 0 - /proc > sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys > procbususb 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb > udev 10M 80K 10M 1% /dev > tmpfs 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm > devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts > > > -nathan _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
