From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 20 15:03:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 BD05416A412 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:03:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEE2B43D6E for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:03:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:22462 helo=http.aseed.net) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GQ3bZ-00031Q-8n; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:03:17 +0000 Received: from amandla (a41188.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.41.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 637FD5828A; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:03:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:03:15 +0200 From: albi To: Philip Radford Message-Id: <20060920170315.157d0126.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <004501c6dcc4$b3231780$0d07a8c0@P800> References: <004501c6dcc4$b3231780$0d07a8c0@P800> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4 no inodes left X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:03:30 -0000 On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:54:39 +0100 "Philip Radford" 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