02-23-2008
A link can be a file too. The system call for rm is unlink(). When you see that message, among other things, it means you'll have really bad performance. Finding a file will take forever. Change the directory layout.
UNIX systems have different filesystems (software that manages files on a disk) on a single machine.
/etc/fstab will tell you which filesystem you have on the disk with your problem.
As a temporary fix, you'll have to start moving files off that directory to others.
What OS and filesystem is it?
Use df -i <directory> to see how many inodes are left in the filesystem. Just to be sure.
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umount
UMOUNT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual UMOUNT(8)
NAME
umount -- unmount filesystems
SYNOPSIS
umount [-fv] special | node
umount -a | -A [-fv] [-h host] [-t type]
DESCRIPTION
The umount command calls the unmount(2) system call to remove a special device or the remote node (rhost:path) from the filesystem tree at
the point node. If either special or node are not provided, the appropriate information is taken from the fstab(5) file.
The options are as follows:
-a All the filesystems described in fstab(5) are unmounted.
-A All the currently mounted filesystems except the root are unmounted.
-f The filesystem is forcibly unmounted. Active special devices continue to work, but all other files return errors if further accesses
are attempted. The root filesystem cannot be forcibly unmounted.
-h host
Only filesystems mounted from the specified host will be unmounted. This option is implies the -A option and, unless otherwise spec-
ified with the -t option, will only unmount NFS filesystems.
-t type
Is used to indicate the actions should only be taken on filesystems of the specified type. More than one type may be specified in a
comma separated list. The list of filesystem types can be prefixed with ``no'' to specify the filesystem types for which action
should not be taken. For example, the umount command:
umount -a -t nfs,hfs
umounts all filesystems of the type NFS and HFS.
-v Verbose, additional information is printed out as each filesystem is unmounted.
FILES
/etc/fstab filesystem table
SEE ALSO
unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8)
HISTORY
A umount command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
4th Berkeley Distribution May 8, 1995 4th Berkeley Distribution