[TriLUG] Reclaiming inodes

[Ron Kelley via TriLUG]

For what it’s worth, the root partition “/" has allocated 735000 inodes, and you have used them all.  This means you have a TON of files (presumably very small ones) in that partition - regardless of partition size.  Another way to think about it; you have used 3.9GB of data (file size) but have used 735000 inodes (IDs) to track them.





> On Sep 28, 2017, at 9:49 AM, Ron Kelley <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Deleting/moving files off the partition should fix the problem.
> 
> 
>> On Sep 28, 2017, at 9:48 AM, Thomas Delrue via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm in a bit of a bind and have never seen this before so if anyone can 
>> explain to me what is happening, that would be great:
>> 
>> I have a machine that keeps reporting that it's run out of disk space.
>> So I do the usual "df -h" and get this:
>> username at host ~ $ df -h
>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/root        12G  3.9G  7.1G  36% /
>> devtmpfs        997M     0  997M   0% /dev
>> tmpfs           999M     0  999M   0% /dev/shm
>> tmpfs           999M  9.5M  990M   1% /run
>> tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
>> tmpfs           999M     0  999M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>> 
>> But it reports that it has no more disk space, so I dig a little deeper and I 
>> find that I could also run df with the -i (inodes) flag, which gives me this:
>> 
>> username at host ~ $ df -hi
>> Filesystem     Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
>> /dev/root        735K  735K     0  100% /
>> devtmpfs         250K  1.4K  248K    1% /dev
>> tmpfs            250K     1  250K    1% /dev/shm
>> tmpfs            250K  1.2K  249K    1% /run
>> tmpfs            250K     3  250K    1% /run/lock
>> tmpfs            250K    16  250K    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
>> 
>> I appear to have "run out of inodes"? Is there a way to reclaim them?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Thomas-- 
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