On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Michael Sorrentino wrote:

> I have never seen this before but I've traced the problem down to inodes. I 
> kept getting messages I was out of space in /var. A df showed me:
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5             980M  127M  803M  14% /var
> 
> Looks ok to me. A few searches in google, I came up with the problem. A df-i 
> shows:
> 
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> 
> /dev/hda5             127744  127402     342  100% /var
> 
> I've tried to find some documentation on how to clear the inodes but I can't 
> seem to locate any. Any ideas anyones? Thanks


My recollection is that you can't "clear" inodes.  They are used by 
files/directories to manage same.  You can increase the number of inodes 
on a partition, but I think this requires destroying the partition and 
recreating it.





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