inodes VS files

[Mike Fedyk]

Bill Gradwohl wrote:

> I'm asking the folks on this list about this even though its not
> specifically a FEDORA question, simply because of the brain power the list
> represents.
> 
> To make a long story short, an Administrator about 200 miles from my
> location ran the / file system out of inodes on RH7.2. It was determined
> that /opt/arkeia was where most of the inodes went, so I suggested he nuke
> /opt/arkeia after we freed up about 50 inodes by deleting some junk files.
> 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.

umount /samba

Is there anything in /samba now?

Mounting a filesystem can hide things.

I'll bet the mv was *really* fast too right? :-D

Mike