[CLUE-Tech] filesystem help

[Michael Robbert]

First of all do you know why it is full of inodes? Maybe you have some
piece of software that writes lots of small files there and if that is
the case then you're on the right track, but if you don't know why it is
filling up then you should find out and you may not need to mess with
changing it.
On the actual point of changing it, I think the best and maybe only
reliable way would be to take the system down and boot into single user
or even from alternate media (CD-ROM or floppy?). The /var filesystem is
very dynamic on a live system and you won't be able to unmount the
filesystem unless you do that. Once that is done I would think that it'd
be fairly straight forward.

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 14:55, Stephen Smith wrote:
> Good evening folks..
> 
> I have a /var filesystem that is running out of
> inodes.
> I want to tar up /var, remove and recreate it with
> approx 9,000,000 inodes
> Then restore the /var info
> 
> Is this going to be an ugly mess or ??
> 
> I am not sure of the steps..
> Does this need to be done from the console..
> 
> Can someone offer any steps or guidelines?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> SGS
> 
> 
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