On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 21:28, 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
Unix uses the concept of inodes to store files. Whenever you store a file, it
is assigned an inode. Unix will always refer to this file using the inode and
nothing else. The name of the file is of no relevance to Unix.
Now every system has a number of inodes assigned to a partition. If you are
out of inodes you cannot store files irrespective of the size of the file or
the amount of free disk space on the drive.
What you need to do is reduce the number of files on the drive. You will have
to do this by deleting some of the files not required anymore. Alternatively
you can archive a number of files that are not being used frequently using
tar. This will reduce the number of files on disk and also free your inodes
after which you can store files.
Good Luck.
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