Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

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

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@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 and every directory does use an
> inode.
>

Oh! Any idea how i can find why the inodes got used up while there is
around 50% of free space in the partition?

DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1%
inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%):

thanks

--Siju