Am 22.10.2014 um 21:53 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 15:45:58, John Bleichert wrote: >> >> This is the second time this has happened, so something is eating up inodes >> on /. I am going to run some aptitude tests and see what happens. >> >> Any idea what the OS is doing during boot to clean up temporary space? Is it >> something I can run manually from a terminal? > > There is some buggy software (cups?) creating a lot of symlinks in /tmp > or so. The faulty package is system-config-printer which linterally creates millions of files in /tmp [1]. As as side-effect, you'll see that rebooting your system can take ages, when /tmp is being cleaned up [2] and you likely see output like this: "a start job is running for Create Volatile files and directories (xx minutes / no limit)" Ext4 is highly inefficient apparently when dealing with huge amount of files in on directory [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764253 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766092#62 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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