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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:03:15 +0200
From:      albi <albi@scii.nl>
To:        Philip Radford <phil@chycor.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.4 no inodes left
Message-ID:  <20060920170315.157d0126.albi@scii.nl>
In-Reply-To: <004501c6dcc4$b3231780$0d07a8c0@P800>
References:  <004501c6dcc4$b3231780$0d07a8c0@P800>

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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:54:39 +0100
"Philip Radford" <phil@chycor.com> wrote:

> I am running FreeBSD 5.4 and have recently received the following
> message on our box for the /var partiton. No inodes left.
> 
> I have checked the statistics and there was an apache httpd log which
> was maxing out the usable space. I have since removed this file and
> the available space has dropped to over 50%. However I still get the
> 'no inodes left' message even though I have freed the space.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can get the inodes to be freed up on the /var
> partition.

if possible i would do the following, take down the machine, make
a backup of /var, wipe out the data on /var, reformat, restore backup

-- 
grtjs,
albi



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