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Hi All,

occasionally my server gives this error messages

"NOTICE:HTFS Out of inodes on HTFS dev hd (1/42)"

why ??

Alice.
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Old 01-08-2002
What does df -i read?
shaik786
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Old 01-08-2002
Mount Dir Filesystem iused ifree itotal %iused
/ /dev/root 89827 7453 97280 93%
/stand /dev/boot 15 3825 3840 1%
/u /dev/u 25462 869002 894464 3%
/a /dev/a 26260 2190716 2216976 2%
/b /dev/b 10250 2206726 2216976 1%
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Old 01-08-2002
A very simplistic explanation of an i-node is like sectors in a Windows FAT filesystem. You may have 2000 megabytes available on a disk (or partition). You have 1000 i-nodes (or sectors) on that disk. Thats means that the smallest chunk of data on your disk would take up 2 megabytes. So, if you have 1000 files, each one megabyte in size, even though your disk is technically only half-full, you've used all 1000 i-nodes. This is what has happened to you, at least on that filesystem (partition). Normally you should find a good balance of i-nodes to space, but you can't have TOO many i-nodes without a large performance problem - that's why there's a limit.

Look for lots of small files on your root filesystem ("/") - that'll will probably be your problem. You can see that it's 93% used.
 
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