Re: How many directories can I have ?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:36:43 -0400

In article <417f4c2c@212.67.96.135>, David Kirkby <nospam@nowhere.com>
wrote:

> BTW, just for a matter of interest, what do you do if you run out of
> inodes, and what are the effects of it? I know messages were appearing
> on a machine at work once, which strongly made me think there was a
> hardware failure (they implied if memory serves me correct, the disk
> appeared to be failing). So I emailed the system admin, to let him know.
> He got back to me, saying he thought the system was running out of
> inodes, but I never did ask him what he done about it. The problem went
> away. Whether he deleted some unwanted files, moves some files to
> another file system, or increased the inodes in some way I no do not know.

Running out of inodes produces errors similar to running out of disk
space. The quick solution is to delete some files, and the long-term
fix is to recreate the filesystem with more inodes. When you format a
filesystem, you can tell it how much space to set aside for inodes, so
you can adjust this for the needs of your applications. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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