[TriLUG] Reclaiming inodes

[Robert Dale via TriLUG]

Where have my inodes gone??

du -s --inodes /*

Just walk it down paths with large numbers until you find the source.

Robert Dale

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Brian Henning via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> wrote:

> I'd go on a hunt for huge numbers of tiny files.  Maybe there are some
> things you can either delete, or tar up for safekeeping.
>
> Probably not as likely a culprit, but I'm pretty sure symlinks occupy
> inodes so you could hunt for broken and/or unnecessary ones.
>
> -B
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TriLUG [mailto:trilug-bounces+bhenning=pineresearch.com at trilug.org]
> On Behalf Of Thomas Delrue via TriLUG
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 9:49 AM
> To: Triangle Linux <trilug at trilug.org>
> Subject: [TriLUG] Reclaiming inodes
>
> 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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