Tools for inodes management.

[bcostacurta]

Hello,

on a Debian server (running Squeeze) I have around 80% of a total of 200.000 inodes occupied.

Which tools (command line only) can I used to monitor, trace and maintain inodes ?

Filesystem is ext3.

Thanks.
Bruno

[Lakshmipathi]

I'm not aware of specific inode management tools -But you can use tune2fs (tune2fs -l <root-device>) - write a script around its output. (look for entries like Inode Count and Free Inodes)

[Irithori]

For a quick look or to be used in a monitoring script:

df -i

[bcostacurta]

df -i returns :

Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
tmpfs 131072 5 131067 1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs 131072 1 131071 1% /dev/shm
/dev/simfs 200000 157477 42523 79% /

But how to check where are all these inodes consumed ?


This system is rather light on usage and applications installed, and so I cannot see where and understand why there is around 80% of inodes used.

The activity and load looks light :

df -h returns :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 512M 0 512M 0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs 512M 0 512M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/simfs 20G 3.0G 18G 15% /

free -m returns:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1024 544 479 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 544 479
Swap: 0 0 0


Thanks.
Bruno