I'm asking the folks on this list about this even though its not specifically a FEDORA question, simply because of the brain power the list represents. To make a long story short, an Administrator about 200 miles from my location ran the / file system out of inodes on RH7.2. It was determined that /opt/arkeia was where most of the inodes went, so I suggested he nuke /opt/arkeia after we freed up about 50 inodes by deleting some junk files. Instead, he did : mv /opt/arkeia /samba , samba being its own file system with tons of inodes. This was done in single user mode. The box was then restarted with no significant messages. I got status reports over the phone. After that mv command, the arkeia directory structure disappeared from /opt as would be expected. However, it never showed up at /samba. df -i still reports only 50 inodes available on /, out of 98000+, but the files are nowhere to be found on that file system. fsck was run, and it reports 98000+ files on /. Running : cd / for x in *; do echo $x; find "/$x" -mount|wc -l; done provides the file counts of each directory structure, and adding up the ones on / totals 17000+. /lost+found is empty. find commands run looking for subdirectory names known to exist under the original /opt/arkeia report nothing anywhere on the box. I did this thinking he mis-keyed the mv target, but the file /.bash_history clearly shows he keyed it in correctly. updatedb and subsequent locates also find nothing. Its as though there are 79000 inodes in limbo. I didn't think this was possible. Anyone with any ideas? -- Bill Gradwohl YCC (817) 224-9400 x211 www.ycc.com SPAMstomper Protected E-mail www.stomperware.com
