Very Computer

by **Hate** » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:57:29

Hi all,
Lately I had a weired message comes about 10 minutes after I reboot my linux
server!!
which is
grow-inodes: inode-max limit reached
and keeps going and going without an end..
The network seems to be working still, but this message fills my screen and
I can not use the computer!!
obviously it is serious..
Can someone help me out there??
thanks a lot!!

Hatem

by **crow** » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 13:51:48

Inodes are the index pointers in a Unix File System (and thus Linux). What
it is telling you is you have too many files on the file system. The disk
is not out of room, it simply doesn't have any more places to keep all the
names. You need 1 inode for each file. Sometimes you need 2 inodes for
each directory. The defaults for the ratio of inodes to MB is different for
each file system. See "man mkfs" or "man newfs"

Happy trails

Quote:> Hi all,
> Lately I had a weired message comes about 10 minutes after I reboot my
linux
> server!!
> which is
> grow-inodes: inode-max limit reached
> and keeps going and going without an end..
> The network seems to be working still, but this message fills my screen
and
> I can not use the computer!!
> obviously it is serious..
> Can someone help me out there??
> thanks a lot!!

> Hatem