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An inode is a FileSystem? entry that links the name and attributes of a file to the file's actual contents. Therefore, the number of inodes used (as reported by certain administrative tools) roughly corresponds to the number of files on that filesystem. Many modern filesystems maintain a table of inodes that is fixed in size for efficiency reasons. However, that means that a given FileSystem? can only hold a set number of files, regardless of the actually amount of free disk space.

This is very rarely a problem, but a wise SystemAdministrator? will periodically check anyway.

-- KirkStrauser - 20 Mar 2003

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An inode is a FileSystem? entry that links the name and attributes of a file to the file's actual contents. Therefore, the number of inodes used (as reported by certain administrative tools) roughly corresponds to the number of files on that filesystem. Many modern filesystems maintain a table of inodes that is fixed in size for efficiency reasons. However, that means that a given FileSystem? can only hold a set number of files, regardless of the actually amount of free disk space.

This is very rarely a problem, but a wise SystemAdministrator? will periodically check anyway.

-- KirkStrauser - 20 Mar 2003

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