Increasing or Freeing inodes

[Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com>]

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 increase the inode nos?

My partitions are


Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4             564G  529G  6.2G  99% /
tmpfs                 7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   68K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             184G  200M  174G   1% /boot
/dev/sdb2              92G  188M   87G   1% /home
/dev/sda3             141G  188M  134G   1% /tmp
/dev/sdb1             826G  357G  427G  46% /var

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/sda4       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/sda1       /boot           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/sdb2       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/sda3       /tmp            ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/sdb1       /var            ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/sda2       none            swap    sw              0       0


Otherwise I guess due to the lack of inodes I wont be able to use the
free space left :-(

Thanks

--Siju