Symlinks shouldn't use up any more inodes than the symlink itself needs (which is negligible). I do question your rather odd need for symlinks pointing to very non-traditional mount points for everything. Why not just mount /mnt/hda4/opt as /opt in fstab and get rid of the symlink? Ditto for all the others?
As for your real problem, look at "df -ih". THat will show the number of inodes in use. Do you have a large number of small files? --- Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have posted this before but didn't understand the answers, but now > I need to > really do something about it. > My / partition is filled, but the amount of data in it is minimal, to > wit: > > /dev/hda1 3.7G 3.6G 0 100% / > /dev/hda3 1.4G 1.1G 216M 84% /mnt/hda3 > /dev/hda4 22G 17G 4.0G 81% /mnt/hda4 > /dev/hdb1 27G 18G 7.9G 69% /mnt/hdb1 > /dev/hdc1 71G 46G 21G 68% /mnt/hdc1 > > [root@jhammer6 /]# du -sh auto bin boot dev etc initrd install lib > lost+found root sbin shlib test tmp > 2.0k auto > 5.9M bin > 3.3M boot > 15k dev > 3.6M etc > 1.0k initrd > 11k install > 44M lib > 12k lost+found > 46M root > 6.2M sbin > 208k shlib > 7.0k test > 80M tmp > So, du reports less than 200 M bytes but df reports 3.6 gigs in use. > Obviously, I do not have gigs of data on the root partition. > > I have a LOT of stuff pointed to by symbolic links (about 18 gigs > worth)in my root partition, to wit: > rwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Dec 21 21:56 . > drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Dec 21 21:56 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 429305 Jul 24 21:30 System.map > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 434859 Feb 17 2001 System.old > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jan 6 2001 auto > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Nov 24 19:44 bin > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jul 24 21:30 boot > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 11264 Dec 16 21:07 dev > drwxr-xr-x 43 root root 4096 Dec 24 07:33 etc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 15 2000 home -> > /mnt/hda4/home > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 8 2000 initrd > drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 1024 Jul 8 2000 install > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4673 Nov 21 10:42 junkout > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 2048 Sep 26 21:37 lib > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 8 2000 lost+found > drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 1024 Nov 21 10:42 mnt > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 98304 Dec 21 22:10 new > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 5 20:39 opt -> > /mnt/hda4/opt > dr-xr-xr-x 121 root root 0 Dec 7 16:31 proc > drwxr-xr-x 43 root root 3072 Dec 24 07:29 root > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3072 Nov 10 22:32 sbin > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 8 2000 shlib > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Nov 24 20:58 test > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jul 5 21:16 tftpboot -> > /mnt/hda4/tftpboot > drwxrwxrwt 54 root root 23552 Dec 24 12:13 tmp > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 4 2001 usr -> > /mnt/hda4/usr > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 5 21:13 var -> > /mnt/hda4/var > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 897761 Feb 17 2001 vmlinux-2.4.1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 863602 Jul 24 21:30 vmlinuz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 636452 Sep 10 2000 > vmlinuz-NoModules > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 863602 Jul 4 16:05 vmlinuz-win4lin > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 897760 Feb 17 2001 vmlinuz.old > > > > > Now, my dumb question is, do the symbolic links on my root partition > gradually > take up more space (or use up that thing they call "inodes") as I add > things to the linked partitions? > What is the best way to solve this problem? ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
