On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 18:13 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> taso wrote:
> > It is extremely unlikley that the average desktop will run out of
> > inodes - see "df -i".
>
> My desktop must be less than average: I subscribe to this and several
> other lists, use Maildir format (one file per email), and keep my own
> local archive. It adds up.
>
> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/hda9 256512 48051 208461 19% /home
>
> That's *after* having tarred + gzipped much of the back history. I had
> got over 50% full, and then wanted to make a copy as part of a migration
> process (which involved creating a new $HOME).
>
It does add up, but for the average user the inodes should never be an
issue.
On mine
[jeff@eye_gore ~]$ df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
1921984 228237 1693747 12% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
7684096 36018 7648078 1% /home
[jeff@eye_gore ~]$ df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
14773 6097 7926 44% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
59059 24862 31197 45% /home
Notice that / is the only filesystem using more than 1% of the inodes
here.
This is after several years of keeping a lot of the email I receive as
well as doing a lot of other stuff.
The only time I have had a problem with inodes was several years ago
when one load I did had something that went screwy and started creating
a ton of <50 byte files as an app was creating the temp file then dieing
and trying again in a loop so it left the files. Since it never
overwrote a file, it filled up the inode table even though df -m showed
over 50% free.
I reloaded with a newer distro and never went back to find out what
actually caused the problem.
> But then, I also found out the hard way that NTFS gets pretty unhappy if
> you try storing more than 65000 files in one directory. Microsoft
> Exchange does this by default if you turn on some monitoring modes...
>
> James.
>
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