Re: Increasing inodes without recreating file system

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On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 07:52 +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:
> nodata wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think you can do it online.
> 
> That was my understanding too - I thought I'd ask here as a last resort :(
> 
> > In the meanwhile, you should find the user with lots of small files to
> > buy you some time.
> 
> Erm, that will be me! I'm the only user of the box.
> 
> I originally envisaged the large partition would be for my music library 
> (mainly flac), i.e. the files would be big but not all the numerous, so 
> I changed the default inode allocation when I created the file system. 
> Bad move!
> 
> I'm now using /home for other things, e.g. /home/apache has all my 
> websites, /home/vpopmail has all my mail, and I've used up all my inodes.
> 
> I guess I can do some shuffling around to keep things running, e.g. move 
> stuff to /usr (where there is 6.8GB free and loads of inodes).
> 
> > Something like:
> > cd /home && for i in *; do echo -n "$i: "; find $i -type f | wc -l;
> > done
> > will probably do it.
> 
> I ran your script with the following results:
> 
> apache: 92685
> builder: 3
> dan: 1696
> du-2004-08-25-17:42:28: 1
> eztest: 67
> jane: 4
> mysql: 2795
> notes: 1692
> postgres: 1567
> robin: 292498
> slimserver: 27799
> smtpd: 5402
> sockd: 4
> svn: 38
> test: 164776
> testlist: 46
> tom: 726
> valiant: 6
> vpopmail: 275006
> 
> As you can see, I am the main culprit, with vpopmail a close second.
> 
> I'm sure I can sort that out to keep me rolling for a while longer.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> R.
> 

Oh well :/

At least you can save yourself with a few symlinks!


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