Re: Inode Proble

[Alan Peery <peery io com>]

Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:57:50PM +0530, Ravi Narwade wrote:
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> Delete some files from /var. There's no other way to recover inodes. And
> find out what caused so many inodes to be used up. It's unusual.
Two likely causes are Usenet news feeds and Internet proxy caches.  Both 
store lots of small files.   If you get large amounts of email, MH 
stores messages individually as well, IIRC.

Use the following command to find the directories where many files have 
been stored. 

find / -type d -size +10k

Note that this represents the maximum number of files that have been 
stored there, not the number that are.  I don't think any of the Linux 
filesystems automatically reclaim unused directory entry space...

Alan