inodes VS files

[Scot L. Harris]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 21:04, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> Instead, he did :  mv /opt/arkeia /samba   , samba being its own file system
> with tons of inodes. This was done in single user mode. The box was then
> restarted with no significant messages. I got status reports over the phone.
> 
> After that mv command, the arkeia directory structure disappeared from /opt
> as would be expected. However, it never showed up at /samba. df -i still
> reports only 50 inodes available on /, out of 98000+, but the files are
> nowhere to be found on that file system. 
> 

Did he use /opt/arkeia as a mount point?  I have seen that happen and it
appears that you loose lots of disk space when it is really just covered
up by the mount.

Prior to restarting the system I would have expected you to see the
directory in the new location and the space freed up on the original
file system.  

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