From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 5 16:20:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C43C16A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:20:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cicero1.cybercity.dk (cicero1.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E627C43D48 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:20:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from db@traceroute.dk) Received: from user1.cybercity.dk (user1.cybercity.dk [212.242.41.34]) by cicero1.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF207E2AC4; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:20:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from trinita (port132.ds1-arsy.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.239.73]) by user1.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A416F74F858; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:20:47 +0100 (CET) From: db To: Freminlins Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:21:28 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200503051422.50394.db@traceroute.dk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503051721.29241.db@traceroute.dk> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no free inodes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:20:50 -0000 On Saturday 05 March 2005 14:12, Freminlins wrote: > 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. Oki, thanks! :-) br db