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Subject: Re: no free inodes
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On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:22:50 +0000, db <db@traceroute.dk> wrote:

> /var: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
> foo.domain.topdomain - error opening scoreboard: No space left on device

This means what it says - you have run out of inodes. Do df -i /var
and you will see all your inodes have been used up.

The number of inodes is fixed at newfs time. This really leaves you
three options:
 1.You can either find some files on /var which are no longer wanted
and delete them, thus freeing up inodes.
 2. You can dump the file system, and recreate it using a
different-than-the-default inode density. man newfs and look at -i for
full information.
 3.You evidently have lots on space on /home so move a lot of files
(preferably a single directory containing lots of file) to /home from
/var and symlinking it.


Frem.