The root partition on one of our machines filled up today because it ran out of indoes. We've cleared out some files but can't see how it could possibly use so many inodes. Find reports ~50,000 files while df -i claims over 620,000 are used out of 640,000. The fs is ext3.
[r...@localhost /]# find / -xdev | wc -l 47636 [r...@localhost /]# df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda2 640000 623423 16577 98% / /dev/sda1 30120 35 30085 1% /boot none 210437 1 210436 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda5 8077312 11 8077301 1% /diska /dev/mapper/vg0-diskb 2101255552 95868443 2005387109 5% /diskc /dev/sdc1 4294967295 30501632 4264465663 1% /diskb Anyone know why this inconsistency could be? Tim Edwards