Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Siju George
Hi, I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%): I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks that are consuming the inodes. Is there any way to

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Tom H
I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%): I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks that are consuming the inodes. Is there any way to

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%): I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% inode=89%): /boot 173

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Tom H put forth on 3/17/2010 7:25 AM: I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%): I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks that are

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks that are consuming the inodes. hardlinks do not use inodes (they only use up space in the directory in which they appear). But every symlink and every directory does use an inode. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks that are consuming the inodes. hardlinks do not use inodes (they only use up space in the directory in which they appear).  But every symlink

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100317_222432, Siju George wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks that are consuming the inodes. hardlinks do not use inodes (they only use up space in the directory

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed March 17 2010 03:38:27 Siju George wrote: I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%): I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed March 17 2010 17:34:50 Mike Bird wrote: (1) You don't have an inode shortage. You have 99%/89%/99% inodes free. (2) You can confirm this with df -i. (3) Hardlinks do not consume any inodes, only directory space. (4) You're short of blocks (not inodes) on your 6GB root drive. (5) du -x