Subject: Re: Where's my inodes?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/06/2006 13:39:13
In article <Pine.NEB.4.61.0607061102310.16562@ugly.precedence.co.uk>,
Stephen Borrill  <netbsd@precedence.co.uk> wrote:
>A customer's server has run out of inodes, but has a tiny amount of files:
>
>mailserver 3# find /usr | wc -l
>   112200
>mailserver 4# df -i /usr
>Filesystem  1K-blocks      Used     Avail Capacity  iused    ifree  %iused 
>/dev/raid2a 153018716  17104340 128263444    11%  9539859    17131    99%
>
>That's nearly 100 times as many inodes as files/directories! Now, I know 
>an inode != file/directory, but it should be the same order of magnitude!

Is it corrupted? Or is there a process holding open tons of files? Hard
to believe.

christos