On 20100317_222432, Siju George wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stefan Monnier > <[email protected]> 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%): >
This is somewhat brute force, but might give you an idea of what is happening: # find <mount-point-of-fs> -ls |less You will get an unsorted list of all in-use inodes and what they are being used for (I think). Scan it looking for clues to source of your problem. Or, maybe, send output of find command to a file and sort the file by some plausible criterion and then look at result with less. You might find a lot of soft links and learn something from their names, which might give you a clue to how to fix. HTH -- Paul E Condon [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
